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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
Part 2 › Some other Proposals are added in the End of your Letter.
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.
Ad 1. Every Church Primae magnitudinis & speciei should be as great and no greater, than is capable of PERSONAL Communion, as our greater Parishes; and every such Church had of old a Bishop. One Altar and one Bishop was Ignatius's Note of one Church; and such a one may maintain divers Ministers; and the Rich should not burden the Church for maintenance, but help freely.
Ad 2. This is a President of a Synod of Bishops.
Ad 3. I thank you for granting Presbyters to be Church-Rectors.
Ad 4. If he be but a President he is but a Bishop Primi Ordinis (of one Church) as the rest: But if he be the stated Rector of many Churches, he is really an Archbishop.
Ad 5. This was written when our Diocesan Frame was taken down, to reconcile them that were for, and them that were against such Bishops, pro tempore.