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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…

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Sect. 5. And that our Ordainers are such, is commonly known: 1. They are Pastors: (it is but few of the Prelates that denied this:) They are ^*Rectors of the People, and have the Pastoral charge of souls. 2. They are Pastors of Particular Churches. 3. They have (for the most part at least) no subject or inferior Presbyters under them: therefore they are Scripture Bishops.

Sect. 5. And that our Ordainers are such, is commonly known: 1. They are Pastors: (it is but few of the Prelates that denyed this:) They are ^*Rectors of the People, and have the Pastoral charge of souls. 2. They are Pastors of Particular Churches. 3. They have (for the most part at least) no subject or inferiour Presbyters under them: therefore they are Scripture Bishops.

*Mr. T. P. calls himself Rector of Brington.

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Sect. 6. Object. The difference lieth in another point: The Scripture Bishops had the Power of Ordination: Your Pastors have not the Power of Ordination: therefore they are not the same. Answ. That is the thing in Question. I am proving that they have the power of Ordination, thus: In Scripture times all single Pastors of single Churches had the Power of Ordination, there being no other instituted: But our Ordainers are the single Pastors of single Churches, (and of Christs institution:) therefore they have the Power of Ordination. If the Pastors now are denied to be such as were instituted in Scripture times, ⟨p. 200⟩1. Let them show who did institute them, and by what authority. 2. The sole Pastors of particular Churches were instituted in Scripture times: But such are ours in question, therefore, &c.

Sect. 6. Object. The difference lyeth in another point: The Scripture Bishops had the Power of Ordination: Your Pastors have not the Power of Ordination: thereefore they are not the same. Answ. That is the thing in Question. I am proving that they have the power of Ordination, thus: In Scripture times all single Pastors of single Churches had the Power of Ordination, there being no other instituted: But our Ordainers are the single Pastors of single Churches, (and of Christs institution:) therefore they have the Power of Ordination. If the Pastors now are denyed to be such as were instituted in Scripture times,

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