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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
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4. Titus was either an ambulatory Evangelist, to go about as the Apostles, gathering and Settling Churches (as I think); or if fixed, he was an Archbishop, who was to settle Bishops under him in every City (as Dr. Hammond judged). It followeth not that a mere Bishop may have a Multitude of Churches, because an Archbishop may, who hath many Bishops under him.
4. Titus was either an ambulatory Evangelist, to go about as the Apostles, gathering and Setling Churches (as I think); or if fixed, he was an Archbishop, who was to settle Bishops under him in every City (as Dr. Hammond judged). It followeth not that a meer Bishop may have a Multitude of Churches, because an Archbishop may, who hath many Bishops under him.
5. As the Magnitude of human Body, so also of a particular Church, hath its Limitation suited to its Ends: Communion by Delegates or Officers only, is the Case of many Churches associated: But Personal Communion in Doctrine, Worship, Conversation and Discipline is the End of each particular Church, and if you extend the Form to more than are capable of that End, even to many such Societies, by so doing the Species is changed.
§ 38. About this time a reverend learned Brother, Mr. Martin Johnson, being of the Judgment of Dr. Hammond and Dr. Gunning, and yet a Lover of all honest, peaceable Men, and constant at our Meetings, Lectures, and Disputations, was pleased to write to me about the Necessity of Episcopal Ordination: I maintained that it was not necessary ad esse Ecclesiae, and that he might be a true Minister who was ordained by Presbyters, and that in Cases of Necessity it was a Duty to take Ordination from them: He opposed this (with Modesty and Judgment, being a very good Logician) till at last he yielded to the Truth. These Letters with their Answers are added in the Appendix.