A26865:875
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II.…
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II. an answer to the accusations urged as reasons for the silencing of about 2000 by Bishop Morley ..., III. reasons proving it the duty and interest of the bishops and conformists to endeavour earnestly their restoration : with a postscript upon oral debates with Mr. H. Dodwell, against his reasons for their silence ... : written in 1668 and 1669, for the most of it, and now published as an addition to the defence against Dr. Stillingfleet, and as an account to the silencers of the reasons of our practice / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst and D. Newman, 1681
AN APOLOGY FOR THE SILENCED MINISTERS, Especially for their not cea… › Postscript › Section
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But if not so, they make the Consecrators choosers, and therefore should not say that Election doth nothing to make him a Bishop. But who are the second determining Electors? They know not who to lay it on, nor who it is that maketh a man Bishop of these persons, and this place. One will say the Consecrators (and then they know not who these must be, and we may possibly have ten Bishops at once), another will say the Clergy (which really here choose not); another will say the King, and they must all come to that or nothing, though they are very loth (for none of them will say, The People).
But if not so, they make the Consecrators chusers, and therefore should not say that Election doth nothing to make him a Bishop. But who are the second determing Electors? They know not who to lay it on, nor who it is that maketh a man Bishop of these persons, and this place. One will say the Consecrators (and then they know not who these must be, and we may possibly have ten Bishops at once), another will say the Clergy (which really here chuse not); another will say the King, and they must all come to that or nothing, though they are very loth (for none of them will say, The People).
2. But what is the dependence of our calling on the Bishops (supposing them of Gods appointment)? Is it a dependence, 1. Of Essence, 2. For Operation, 3. Or for the Order and Circumstances of operation? And do they mean that we depend, 1. On the ⟨p. 245⟩Bishops first Ordination? 2. Or on his continued Will?
2. But what is the dependance of our calling on the Bishops (supposing them of Gods appointment)? Is it a dependance, 1. Of Essence, 2. For Operation, 3. Or for the Order and Circumstances of operation? And do they mean that we depend, 1. On the ⟨p. 245⟩Bishops first Ordination? 2. Or on his continued Will?