A69533:787

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. 75. It is strange that those men (among the Papists) that allow of the Cardinals choosing a Pope, and exercising so much Government as they do over all the Christian world, and all this under the name of Presbyters of Rome, should yet be against Ordination by such Presbyters as are indeed Parochial Bishops, and accuse it to be a Nullity. I see not how these things cohere.

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Sect. 76. But yet many Papists are more moderate in this▪ then those at home that we now deal with. That Erasmus, Richardus Armachanus, Gui•el. Durantes, and many more of them, were on our side in this point, is commonly known, and manifested by abundance of our writers, some of them Bishops, and some Episcopal Divines themselves.

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Sect. 77. And divers of their Schoolmen do maintain that the [Ord• Episcopalis non differt à Caracthere Sacerdotali, nisi sicut forma intensa a se ipsa remissa] as Soncinas relateth (in 4. Sent. d. 25.) the sentence of Paludanus, which Voetius recites.

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And the same Soncinas, and Voetius after him do cite Aureolus, proving that Gradus Episcopalis & Sacerdotum non sunt distinctae potestates, &c. Quia Sacerdos authoritate Papae potest Sacerdotem instituere. Ergo non differunt potestas Episcopalis & Sacerdotis, nisi sicut potestas impeditae & non impedita: quae tamen est eadem. Antecedens probatur, quia omnis virtus activa, non impedita, potest transfundere seipsam] To the same purpose Cusanus and many more.

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