A26965:92
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.
Sect. II. It is not inconsiderable to our confirmation, that so worthy a man as Dr. Hamond doth over and over, in his Dissertations against Blondel, and in his Learned Annotations on the new Testament, assert all the matter of fact which we are pleading for, viz. That the word [Presbyter] and [Pastor] in the New Testament is ever taken for a Bishop: That it belonged to the Bishops office to be the Preacher to his Church, to visit all the Sick, to take care of all the Poor, and to take Charge of the Churches stock, to administer the Sacrament, &c. And (as he saith on Acts 11. 6.) That although this Title of [Greek or Hebrew], Elders, have been also extended to a second order in the Church, and is now only in use for them, under the name of Presbyters, yet in the Scripture time it belonged principally, if not alone, to Bishops, there being NO EVIDENCE that any of that second Order were then instituted, though soon after before the writing of Ignatius's Epistles, there were such instituted in all Churches.]
Sect. II. It is not inconsiderable to our confirmation, that so worthy a man as Dr. Hamond doth over and over, in his Dissertations against Blondell, and in his Learned Annotations on the new Testament, assert all the matter of fact which we are pleading for, viz. That the word [Presbyter] and [Pastor] in the New Testament is ever taken for a Bishop: That it belonged to the Bishops office to be the Preacher to his Church, to visit all the Sick, to take care of all the Poor, and to take Charge of the Churches stock, to administer the Sacrament, &c. And (as he saith on Acts 11. 6.) That although this Title of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Elders, have been also extended to a second order in the Church, and is now only in use for them, under the name of Presbyters, yet in the Scripturetime it belonged principally, if not alone, to Bishops, there being NO EVIDENCE that any of that second Order were then instituted, though soon after before the writing of Ignatius's Epistles, there were such instituted in all Churches.]