A76157:466
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
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Answ. 1. In my second sheet for the Ministry, and my Christian Concord, I have answered already: And for fuller answer, I refer you to the London Ministers Vindication, to Mr. Mason's Vindication of the Ordination of the Protestant Churches, &c. If Bishop Bancroft himself, as Dr. Bernard mentions, in Bishop Usher's Judgment, and the rest of the Prelates, were against the reordaining the Scots Ministers, me thinks, few should be so much more intemperate, then that intemperate Prelate, as to judge their Ordination Null. And if the Papists in the Canon Law, do judge that in some cases an excommunicate mans Ordination is valid, me thinks Protestants should ⟨p. 266⟩not be worse to the Church then they: Especially those that are for the Necessity of an uninterrupted succession of justly ordained Pastors; who must (I dare boldly say) derive their succession from unmeeter, and more uncapable hands, then English Pastors.
Answ. 1. In my second sheet for the Ministry, and my Christian Concord, I have answered already: And for fuller answer, I referre you to the London Ministers Vindication, to Mr. Mason's Vindication of the Ordination of the Protestant Churches, &c. If Bishop Bancroft himself, as Dr. Bernard mentions, in Bishop Ʋsher's Judgment, and the rest of the Prelates, were against the reordaining the Scots Ministers, me thinks, few should be so much more intemperate, then that intemperate Prelate, as to judge their Ordination Null. And if the Papists in the Canon Law, do judge that in some cases an excommunicate mans Ordination is valid, me thinks Protestants should ⟨p. 266⟩not be worse to the Church then they: Especially those that are for the Necessity of an uninterrupted succession of justly ordained Pastours; who must (I dare boldly say) derive their succession from unmeeter, and more uncapable hands, then English Pastours.
2.1 No more is necessary to the Authority and just ordination of a Pastor, but that he enter according to the Laws of God; which Laws require us to submit to the trial, of our Rulers and Brethren, Magistrates (in some cases) and Pastors; and to come in according to the best means, for Election and Approbation, that are then to be had and used; but they bind us not to come in by ways Impossible, nor to see that our Antecessors through all generations have been lawfully ordained.