A26965:596
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
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. It is not pretended that any such Oaths of obedience were instituted by Christ or his Apostles; or were used in the Churches for many hundred years, nor till the Papacy was rising, which was furthered by such Oaths.
3. They that suppose Bishops to be successors of the Apostles, cannot make them subjects to any other Ecclesiastical Rulers, without asserting that the Apostles were Governors over one another; which we find not that they do.
3. They that suppose Bishops to be successours of the Apostles, cannot make them subjects to any other Ecclesiastical Rulers, without asserting that the Apostles were Governours over one another; which we find not that they do.
4. It was many hundred years before Arch-Bishops had any Governing power over Bishops, or exacted any obedience from them; being not Episcopi Episcoporum (as the Carthage Fathers in Cyprian professed.) But were only such as had the first seats and voices in the Synods.