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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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. Every particular Kingdom and Church, being part of Christs Universal Kingdom and Church, no man may Usurp any of Christs power, or office, over a part, no more then over the whole (Though the universal usurpation be far the greatest sin against him).
22. Therefore no man may do that which either importeth that they have the same Power in that Church or Kingdom as Christ hath, (but only subordinate power) or that his Laws are defective and imperfect, as to that particular Church or Kingdom.
23. What Christ hath appropriated to himself, as the work or matter of his own Law, must appear from the perusal of that Law it self, and by seeing what he hath there determined of, and so not left for man to do, (unless as the executioners of his Laws, repeating them by commanding that they be practised.)
24. It is certain that as Christ as Mediator is King of the Church, and hath Legislative power, and did exercise it partly by himself on earth, so he commissioned his Apostles in general to teach all Nations to observe all things whatever he had commanded them, and promised ⟨p. 26⟩