Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ )42 j The God o/ Peace bave mercy upon an fgnorattt vn:. I pel{ceableWorld, and prepare U4 by Faith, Hope and. Love for the World of Love and Peace~ Amen. I .Poftfcript. ,. . § I.I P.er~~i_ve fome c~nnot d~gefl: it; that a •. , · Chnfhan Soveratgn 1bould be the Head~ that is, the Forma inforrnans, ~etijita &_unifica of ci. -National Church, and th;It it is not faid to be a. National Sacerdotal Head, either Monarchical in Qne primate or Arifiocratical in feveral .Metropo– litanes or Diocefanes, as one College & Perfona politica ; Or as Mr. _Hooker, Dr. Beveridge, and the · Republicane Pdliticians, :and moll fana'ticks think, in the Major part of the Body, ruling by their Re– ·prefentatives and chofen Proxies, \Yhich is called aDemocracy ; ·or mixt of thefe by natural right. § 2. And if any thing with thefe men were · flrange, it would feem firange, that the fame men that fubfcribe to or approve the Canons of 164~ for dte Divine making or in{liiutidn of Kings and that fill Pulpits and Books with InveCtives againfl: Rebels Fanaticks and the Patlia:mems Wars, ;md 1 ma11y \Vriters of Politicks, for holding that the King isjingulu MJ/tjor& univerjis Minor,- and -that the Power ofthe Head is from the Majority of the· Body, ancl that the Legiflative Supremacy: ·is in ... them t;adically as in the Majeftas Rea/is derived tO' the Kipg as the M~Je/fds. perfondlu, {hould comt! themfelves to·bnild their ·Church Power on fol rotten a found.nion ?. And.thaE the poor Nonc<:n· . fot'm!fts

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