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Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters
Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters.
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Whitlock, 1697
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Mr. RICHARD BAXTER's LAST LEGACY TO ALL Sober Dissenters. › Of Lay-Elders.
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.
Of Lay-Elders.
For Lay-Elders,1 As far as I understand, the greatest part, if not three for one of the English Ministers, are of this mind, That unordained Elders wanting power to Preach or Administer Sacraments, are not Officers in the Church of God's appointment: Of this number I am one, and Mr. Vines was another.
- 15. Disput. Preface, p. 4.
In the Worcester Agreement Printed 1653. Mr. Baxter declared, that neither Scripture nor Antiquity knew of any such Officers as Lay-Elders.
In the Third Defence, p. 58. It was notorious, that the Parliament yielded to Presbytery to exclude Episcopacy, because they had no other way to uphold their Wars, without which they had no way to hold up themselves, but by help of the Scots.