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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 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.
Ad 5. This was written when our Diocesane Frame was taken down, to reconcile them that were for, and them that were against such Bishops, pro tempore.
If you take liberty to cast off the Example of Cyprian's times, on pretence that the Case is altered by the Kings Laws, then you will never know where to rest while Laws are alterable. Qu. Whether the Practice of the Church till Cyprian's time be not a probable Notice to us what was the Apostolical instituted Government? If not, why use you the Argument of Antiquity for Episcopacy? If yea, Qu. Whether Rulers may alter the Apostolic Institution? and the Office and work of Presbyters may be changed on pretence that now Bishops can do it without them? He that ever tried true Discipline will find one Parish big enough for one Man's or divers Mens right Performance of it, and Six hundred or a Thousand Parishes too many.