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Of National Churches

Published: 1691
Length: 29,078 words
Reading: ~2 hours
Divisions: 20

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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...

London Printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst ... 1691.

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To the readerTHE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
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Table of contents
Publishers advertisementBooks Printed for and Sold by Tho. Parkhurſt at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapſide near Mercers Chapel.
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Chapter 1Chap. I. What a National Church is.
Chapter 2Chap. II. That Chriſt inſtituted ſuch a Church-Form.

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Chapter 4Chap. IV. Particular Churches and Paſtors how far eſſential to a National Church, and what are its materials.
Chapter 5Chap. V. Of Paſtors or the Biſhops of National Churches, that they are to be of Three ranks.
Chapter 6Chap. VI. Who muſt be the Lay-Members of National Churches.
Chapter 7Chap. VII. What is the Confederacy or Concord needful to a National Church.
Chapter 8Chap. VIII. How far this Confederacy and Concord bindeth the Members of a National Church to Conformity to…
Chapter 9Chap. IX. That Chriſt hath Inſtituted no true Eccleſiaſtical Government in Man, of any larger extent than…
Chapter 10Chap. X. Whether an Univerſal Church-Government be of Apoſtolick Succeſſion in the continued parts of their…
Chapter 11Chap. XI. Whether a National Church Soveraignty infer the need or lawfulneſs of a Humane Univerſal Church…
Chapter 12Chap. XII. The Three other Reaſons for Popery anſwered briefly.
Chapter 13Chap. XIII. What are the dangerous Diſeaſes of a National Church.
Chapter 14Chap. XIV. Whether the National Church of England be at the preſent of a ſound Conſtitution. And what is…
Chapter 15Chap. XV. The Caſe of Toleration of Diſſenters from the Common Laws and Cuſtoms of a National Church more…

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