Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters

The Second is that which succeeds the Apostles in the ordinary parts of Church-Government, while some Senior Pastors have the care of Supervising many Churches, as the Visitors had in Scotland; and are so far Episcopi-Episcoporum, having no constraining Power of the Sword.

But a Power to admonish and instruct the Pastors, and to Regulate Ordinations, Synods, and all great and common Circumstances that belong to Churches: For if there were one Form of Government, in which some Pastors had such extensive Work and Power, as Timothy, Titus, and the Evangelists had, as well as Apostles, we must not change it without Proof, that Christ himself would have it changed. Many wise Men think, that the Presbyterians rejecting all Episcopacy, setting up unordained Elders, and National Churches headed by National Assemblies, are divisive and unwarrantable, as their making by the Scots Covenant, the renouncing of Episcopacy, to be the test of National Concord was divisive. Page 72. of the Third Defence, Part the last.

Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, Hopper, Jewel, Davenant, Usher, Moreton, Abbot, Hall, Potter, Charleton, were all Pious as well as Learned Bishops, and so were many Conformist Ministers, Sibs, Preston, Fenner, Bolton, Whately, Dent, Crook, Pike, Stock, Stoughton, Taylor, &c. My Judgment is, that a Peace with the Divines of the Episcopal Judgment is much to be desired, and earnestly endeavoured. If it be Objected, that he calls the Bishops their Silencers and Persecutors, p. 104. of his Apology he says, no Bishops have Silenced us by Spiritual Government, that we know of, but only as Barons by the Secular Laws, to which some of them gave their Votes, for Mr. Baxter acknowledgeth all did not.

Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, Hoper, Jewel, Davenant, Usher, Moreton, Abbot, Hall, Potter, Charleton, were all Pious as well as Learned Bishops, and so were many Conformist Ministers, Sibs, Preston, Fenner, Bolton, Whately, Dent, Crook, Pike, Stock, Stoughton, Taylor, &c. My Judgment is, that a Peace with the Divines of the Episcopal Judgment is much to be desired, and earnestly endeavoured. If it be Objected, that he calls the Bishops their Silencers and Persecutors, p. 104. of his Apology he says, no Bishops have Silenced us by Spiritual Government, that we know of, but only as Barons by the Secular Laws, to which some of them gave their Votes, for Mr. Baxter acknowledgeth all did not.