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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.
30. No proper part of the Pastoral Office, whether it be by Teaching, Administering Sacraments, or the power ⟨p. 147⟩and use of the Ecclesiastical keys, belong to any Laymen, whether Chancellors or others.
30. No proper part of the Pastoral Office, whether it be by Teaching, Administring Sacraments, or the power ⟨p. 147⟩and use of the Ecclesiastical keys, belong to any Laymen, whether Chancellors or others.
31. All coactive Church Government belongeth to the King and Magistrates who are the Keepers of the Churches peace, and need not a Church-Office of Prelates to do their work, and take the honour of it to themselves.
32. The foresaid Usurpations of Proud Pastors over the Consciences of others, out of their own Churches, with their turning the ancient practical Christianity into contentions for speculations and notions of their own, proceeding at last to a Tyranny over Kings and Magistrates themselves, yea even to impose Oaths on men to obey them, and never to reform them, or endeavour any alteration of these evils, hath been the corruption, confusion and calamity of the Christian world, which too many Princes of the world have endured, and some in blind devotion and some for selfish ends promoted.