Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ ~49 - 1 _ - But fuch men Englapd faffers by' .Jhat cannot _diitingui{h betwe.en Forum Divin;tm and HJtma.. rtttm: We believe that Gods Cornrn:md'jullifierh u~ inforo Divino, for obeying it : But th,e Law. jufii– fieth us infor~"o hunumo: Gods ·Law and Judgment will keep us from Hell, and at lafi filente our fi· lencers: B~t the Kings La'ws bring us ·and k~ep us out ofJatls, and from the Jaws ofthem that envy our Liberty ~nd Lives. . § 13. · It's · C1J 'quefiion confiderable, ,whether Englandbe a ProtefiancChurch or not, if it have ,;z Papifl: ~ing ? To which I fay, we ' rnqft diftin– gui!h betwee;:~ a profeft Papift and a concealed one. :z; .. ~nd betweenaKing that hath the rota! Scve– taignty arid Legiflarive Power, and one that bath' bur part of i~, and the Parliamei1t another part. 3. Andopewbofe La,vs are for Popery ( or .his pov;~er abov~ Laws ufed by Gommjfficn ) and one who ruleth by Prorel1ant Laws. Apd fo I .AKingqom under a total .PopiJ1J Soveraignt}', rtlling by PopifhLa'iVS·Or Mandates above ·Lav~ -, ~ s no Political P.rorellant National Church, . rho all t·Pe Clergy w~re ProreHants : The form that penominq.teth is P:1pal: And y~t it is nQt a Papal ChL1rch or Kingdom : Becaufe che m~tter is eiferi:– ti<il, and its di{pofition_without which non recipitur. · forma : It_isa Chriftian Chur~h, Qefthe~ Proteilanf . '{ fave eqUivoc~fly'.) nor Paptll, .but mtxt.. .. · .But if Bilhop Morlty and thofeConformifis tbat · give the total' Legiflation and Soveraignty ,to--the · King alone be not in the right, nor they that make i E rraitetous to fuppofe that the Kings A!lth9rity · {peaking by Law, may be fee againH his Perfoqal WiU, . Word and Commiffion, then the Parlia- ~7~~ ~Bd L'w~ F~f!l'f~~ng P~~tefra~t, ;the J(ding- · · ,. om .

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