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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. If Bishops made the first Archbishops (and Parish-Bishops, say others the first Diocesans, and Presbyters the first Parish-Bishops), then, 1. Inferiors may make Superiors, and give the power which they never had. 2. Why then may they not ordain Equals, and propagate their species. 3. Then Presbyters or Bishops are of God, and Archbishops of Men.
2. If Bishops made the first Achbishops (and Parish-Bishops, say others the first Diocesans, and Presbyters the first Parish-Bishops), then, 1. Inferiors may make Superiors, and give the power which they never had. 2. Why then may they not ordain Equals, and propagate their species. 3. Then Presbyters or Bishops are of God, and Archbishops of Men.
§ 42. Page 128. Saith he, [Every Bishop is the proper Governor of his own Diocese, and cannot be regularly imposed on against his consent.]
§ 42. Page 128. Saith he, [Every Bishop is the proper Governour of his own Diocess, and cannot be regularly imposed on against his consent.]
Ans. Yet even now [He that causelessly breaks this Union is no Catholic Bishop. It seems then it goeth not by Vote; but a Dissenter may be a free Catholic: I pray you then impose not on others against their con•ent.
Ans. Yet even now [He that causelesly breaks this Union is no Catholick Bishop. It seems then it goeth not by Vote; but a Dissenter may be a free Catholick: I pray you then impose not on others against their con•ent.