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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. 62. The Minor is proved by parts. 1. That the Office of a Presbyter is of divine institution, is confessed by most: And I suppose those that deny it to be of Scripture institution, will yet have it to be Divine: But if they deny that, yet it sufficeth us, that it is the same officer that they call a Bishop, and we a Presbyter; that is, the chief Pastor of a particular Church.

Sect. 62. The Minor is proved by parts. 1. That the Offi•e of a Presbyter is of divine institution, is confessed by most: And I suppose those that deny it to be of Scripture ins•i•ution, will yet have it to be Divine: But if they deny that, yet it sufficeth us, that it is the same officer that they call a Bishop, and we a Presbyter; that is, the chief Pastor of a particular Church.

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Sect. 63. 2. And that the persons are duly or competently qualified for the Ministry, nothing but Ignorance, Faction and Malice, that ever I heard of, do deny. (Supposing the humane frailties, that make us all insufficient gradually for these things) The Ignorant that know not what the Ministerial qualifications are, do judge as carnal interest leadeth them. The Factious rail at all that be not of their mind. Grotius thought the opinions of the Calvinists made them unfit materials for the Catholic Edifice that by his Pacification he was about to frame. So do most other Sects, reject those as unworthy that suit not with ⟨p. 221⟩their minds. And malice (whether animated by Heresy, Profaneness or Carnal interest) will easily find faults, and unweariedly slander and reproach: But besides such I meet with none that dare deny the competent abilities of these Ministers

Sect. 63. 2. And that the persons are duly or competenly qualified for the Ministry, nothing but Ignorance, Faction and Malic•, that ever I heard of, do deny. (Supposing the humane frailties, that make us all insufficient gradually for these things) The Ignorant that know not what the Ministerial qualifications are, do judge as carnal interest leadeth them. The Factious rail at all that be not of their mind. Grotius thought the opinions of the Calvinists made them unfit materials for the Catholick Edifice that by his Pacification he was about to frame. So do most other Sects, reject those as unworthy that suit not with

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