Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BX5151 .B3 1659

(3t6) to fomeChurches. And fuch a Bifhop with fuch a Presbyterie end Deacons ( neither Lay, nor ufuallyvery Learned) were the ancient fixed Governours of the Churches,if I can under- ¡land antiquity.. 1:MVV. CHAP. V,. ObjeEtions againf1 the l'relidency fore- mentioned, anfwered. §. z. ,,, 4,z ;,, üT it is not likely but all thefe mod- ?' ons will have Diffenters onboth fides ; ,' ` It were orange if in a divided ageand place , andamong a peopleengaged in 00 fo many feveral parties, and that fo ; ,, / deeply as now men are, there fhould any healing remedy be propounded , that Ihould not have abundance of oppofers : Mofl men are prejudiced and affefted at their Education ; or opportunities,or parties or feveral interefl Tway them. And therefore I expect that moll fhould reject all that I fay , and fome of them with much reproach and (corn. Our difeafe. were not fo great and dangerous if it could but endure the remedy. But let us confi- der fome of their Obje&ions. 4.2.Obje&. r. Theunpeaceable men ofthePrelatical way wilt fay [ Thisis bar to turna Biß>op into a Parißh-Triet ; and to stake him theRuler of a Parijb and a Curate or two, and in many placer, of no Miniflers at all r 'A fair Promotion. It f ems you would leave thembataname andfhadow, andmake them to be contemptible. S. 3. .9nfr. t, Remember that I grant you alfo the Pruden e}

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