A69533:968
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.
§. 27. Concerning these unfixed Ministers, I add these following Propositions. 1. That such Ministers may not deprive the fixed Pastors of any of their Power: they may not disable them from Governing their own Churches as fully as if there were no Itinerant Ministers. If they are admitted pro tempore to assist the Churches where they come, that will not enable them to hinder them, or assume a Lordship or a Rule over the Pastors of the Churches.
§. 28. 2. These Itinerant unfixed Ministers, are not so obliged to perpetual motion, but that they may reside for a considerable ⟨p. 284⟩time in a place, either for the following on the work of Conversion, where they find a plenteous harvest, or for settling Churches, or suppressing heresies or disorders, or because of their own disability to travail. And thus Paul staid at and about Ephesus in Asia three years, Act. 20.31. Their stay must be prudentially apportioned to their work and opportunities.
§. 28. 2. These Itinerant unfixed Ministers, are not so obliged to perpetual motion, but that they may reside for a considerable ⟨p. 284⟩time in a place, either for the following on the work of Conversion, where they find a plenteous harvest, or for setling Churches, or surpressing heresies or disorders, or because of their own disability to travail. And thus Paul staid at and about Ephesus in Asia three years, Act. 20.31. Their stay must be prudentially apportioned to their work and opportunities.