A26965:586
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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3. We have great reason to believe that Calvin, Beza, and many more Reformers, Blondel, Salmatius, Robert Parker, Gersom, Bucer, Calderwood, Cartwright, John Reynolds, Ames, Ainsworth, and multitudes of such Protestants, did diligently read both Scriptures and Ancients: As also Dr. S•illingfleet, Bishop Edw. Reynolds, and many such, who thought that Scripture instituted no particular forms of Government: As also Armachanus, and many other Papists, who think that Bishops and Priests do not differ ordine, but gradu, which the R. Reverend Archbishop Usher ordinarily professed: We cannot assert that none of these diligently read Scripture or ancient Authors.
3. We have great reason to believe that Calvin, Beza, and many more Reformers, Blondell, Salmatius, Robert Parker, Gersom, Bucer, Calderwood, Cartwright, John Reynolds, Ames, Ainsworth, and multitudes of such Protestants, did diligently read both Scriptures and Ancients: As also Dr. S•illingfleet, Bishop Edw. Reynolds, and many such, who thought that Scripture instituted no particular forms of Government: As also Armachanus, and many other Papists, who think that Bishops and Priests do not differ ordine, but gradu, which the R. Reverend Archbishop Usher ordinarily professed: We cannot assert that none of these diligently read Scripture or ancient Authors.
4. But especially when we find that even the ancient Church of England was of another mind, as is legible in the Canons of Aelfric to Wulfine in Spelman, pag. 573. 576. which conclude that (in the old large sense) there were but seven Ecclesiastical Orders or Degrees, and that the Bishops and Presbyters are not two, but one: Hand pluris interest inter Missalem Presbyterum & Episcopum, quam quod Episcopus constitutus sit ad ordinationes conferendas, & ad visitandum seu inspiciendum curandumque ea quae ad Deum pertinent, quod nimiae crederetur multitudini si omnis Presbyter hoc idem faceret. Ambo siquidem UNUM tenet EUNDEMQUE ORDINEM, ⟨p. 196⟩