Irenicum. A weapon-salve for the Churches wounds, or The divine right of particular forms of church-government: discuss'd and examin'd according to the principles of the law of nature, the positive laws of God, the practice of the apostles, and the primitive Church, & the judgment of reform'd divines. Whereby a foundation is laid for the Churches peace, and the accommodation of our present differences (1662)
Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699 · London, Printed for Henry Mortlock ... · leaf 182
wn from Tradition, and the pratticeof the Church in after-ages, proved invalid by feveral arguments. In orderto a right . flaring the Qucftion, fome Conceffions laid down, Firf, That there muft be fome ferm of Government inthe Charch.. The notion of aChurchexplained ; whether it belongs only to… … ways, whereby we find out a Divine pofi- tive Law determining an unalterable Obligation : which muft certain way, whereby to gather from thence, thatit was Gods a ftanding univerfal pofitive Law, is Gods ¢eclaring his mind, that the thing enquired into, fhould unalterably bind men to Gods…
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