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Five disputations of church-government and worship

Name: Five disputations of church-government and worship
Author: Richard Baxter

Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659

[10], 38, [10], 24, 492 p. · 215k words · Wing B1267 · ESTC R13446

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Assert. Those who nullify our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 7: The Ordination used now in England and in other Protestant Churches, is Valid, and agree…Assert. Those who nullifie our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 7: The Ordination used now in England and in other Protestant Churches, is Valid, and agre…

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

[ Earlier:706–721 of 1,637

:706p. 198

Sect. 2. Argument 1. The Ordination is Valid which is performed by such Bishops as were instituted and existent in Scripture times. But our Ordination (used in England and other reformed Churches) is performed by such Bishops as were instituted and existent in Sc••pture times: the refore such Ordination is Valid.

Sect. 2. Argument 1. The Ordination is Valid which is performed by such Bishops as were instituted and existent in Scriture times. But our Ordination (used in England and other refo•med Churches) is performed by such Bishops as were institut•d and existent in Sc••pture times: the refore such Ordination is Valid.

:707p. 198–199

Th• Major will not be denied (being understood with a supposition of other requisites that are not now in controversy:) ⟨p. 199⟩For those that we have to deal with do grant, that such Bishops as are mentioned, Acts 20. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. Phil. 1.1. and in other passages of Scripture, had the power of Ordination, and that it belonged not only to the Apostles and Evangelists, and (such as they call) Archbishops; but that the fixed Bishops of particular Churches had it.

Th• Major will not be denyed (being ••derstood with a supposition of other requisites that are not now in controversie:)

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