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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
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3. I have showed already, and God willing shall more fully do it, in a Disputation on that subject, that our English Episcopacy was not that which God established, but intolerably inconsistent with it: And therefore neither are men the less Ministers for being without their Ordinations, nor are they Schismatics for consenting to their deposition.
3. I have shewed already, and God willing shall more fully do it, in a Disputation on that subject, that our English Episcopcay was not that which God established, but intollerably inconsident with it: And therefore neither are men the less Ministers for being without their Ordinations, nor are they Schismaticks for consenting to their deposition.
4 As for breaking Oaths of Canonical ⟨p. 267⟩Obedience to them, I think but few among us did take any such oath, and therefore broke none.
4 As for breaking Oathes of Canonical ⟨p. 267⟩Obedience to them, I think but few among us did take any such oath, and therefore broke none.
5. Many among us were Ordained by Bishops, and some that were Ordained took not that oath: and others that did, yet obeyed them while they stood, and what could they do more.