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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 3
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CHAP. III.
§ 1. Your second Section is of our Assent to the words in the Book of Ordination of the Notoriety of the Antiquity of the three distinct Orders. And 1. You justify it by telling us that ⟨p. 10⟩[difference of Holiness, Wisdom, Usefulness may be said to make different Orders.] But this is too lusory in a serious business. Words of Art or Science are to be understood according to the use of the men of that Art or Science: And the many old School Disputes, and Controversial Writers tell us long ago, how they understood the word [Orders] as Offices in Specie differing from Degrees in the same Species. In your equivocal sense you say true, that there are more than three Orders, or threescore: Yea, in the usual sense of old they had seven Orders, and yet they held Bishops and Presbyters to be but one of the seven; as I showed you out of Spelman in Aelfric's Canons of this Church of England, in the very times of Popery.
§ 1. YOur second Section is of our Assent to the words in the Book of Ordination of the Notoreity of the Antiquity of the three distinct Orders. And 1. You justifie it by telling us that ⟨p. 10⟩[difference of Holiness, Wisdom, Usefulness may be said to make different Orders.] But this is too lusory in a serious business. Words of Art or Science are to be understood according to the use of the men of that Art or Science: And the many old School Disputes, and Controversal Writers tell us long ago, how they understood the word [Orders] as Offices in Specie differing from Degrees in the same Species. In your equivocal sense you say true, that there are more than three Orders, or threescore: Yea, in the usual sense of old they had seven Orders, and yet they held Bishops and Presbyters to be but one of the seven; as I shewed you out of Spelman in Aelfrick's Canons of this Church of England, in the very times of Popery.