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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.
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⟩them the Holy Ghost, as his Agent or Advocate to bring all that he had taught them to their remembrance, and to inspire them infallibly and lead them into all truth, so that the work of Legislation was performed by Christ, by the Holy Ghost as his Advocate or Agent in the Apostles, Matth, 28. 19, 20. Eph. 1. 21, 22, 23. Eph. 4. 8, 10, 11. Joh. 14. 26. Joh. 16. 7, 8, 13. Mic. 4. 2. Isa. 2. 3. & 8. 16; 20. & 42. 4. Heb. 7. 12. James 1. 25. & 2. 12.