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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
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.
9 We have no Bishop to do it: and therefore it must be done by Presbyters: Or we have none that we know of, and non esse, & non apparere; are to us all one.
10. Presbyters may Impose hands in Ordination, and ever did here in England: Therefore much more in Absolution and Confirmation.
11. King Charles, by the advice of his Doctors in the Isle of Wight, reserved only Ordination, and not Confirmation and Absolution to the Bishops.
11. King Charles, by the advice of his Doctours in the Isle of Wight, reserved only Ordination, and not Confirmation and Absolution to the Bishops.
12. Presbyters are Governors of the Churches, which are their Pastoral charge; and are called Rectors: (see Bishop Ushers, Reduction of Episcopacy, &c. proving it) Therefore they may do this, which is an act of Government or Guidance of the particular Church.