A69533:962
Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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.
§. 21. And if we lived our selves in Heathen or Infidel Countries, we should be soon taught by experience, that this must be still an ordinary work. For what else is to be done till persons be converted and brought into the Church? They must be made Disciples before they can be used as Disciples, and caught to observe all things that Christ hath commanded.
§. 21. And if we lived our selves in Heathen or Infidel Countreys, we should be soon taught by experience, that this must be still an ordinary work. For what else is to be done till persons be converted and brought into the Church? They must be made Disciples before they can be used as Disciples, and caught to observe all things that Christ hath commanded.
§. 22. But against this it is objected, 1. That the Apostles were extraordinary Officers, and therefore have no Successors. To which I answer, 1. That I have before showed in what they were extraordinary, and in what not: in what they have no Successors, and in what they have. As Apostles sent immediately by Christ to Reveal a new doctrine, and confirm it by Miracles, they have no Successors: but as general Ministers of Christ to convert souls, plant Churches, and take a care of many, they have Successors; call them by what name you please. 2. And what if the Apostles have no Successors? Had the seventy Disciples none? Had Apollo, Titus, Timothy, Silas, Barnabas, &c. none? Had all the Itinerant converting Ministers of those times none, that were not affixed as Pastors to a particular Church?
§. 22. But against this it is objected, 1. That the Apostles were extraordinary Officers, and therefore have no Successors. To which I answer, 1. That I have before shewed in what they were extraordinary, and in what not: in what they have no Successors, and in what they have. As Apostles sent immediatly by Christ to Reveal a new doctrine, and confirm it by Miracles, they have no Successors: but as general Ministers of Christ to convert souls, plant Churches, and take a care of many, they have Successors; call them by what name you please. 2. And what if the Apostles have no Successors? Had the seventy Disciples none? Had Apollo, Titus, Timothy, Silas, Barnabas, &c. none? Had all the Itinerant converting Ministers of those times none, that were not affixed as Pastors to a particular Church?