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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
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.
Those that were for it, said, That Episcopacy was Jure Divino, and also settled by a Law, and therefore if the Sovereign Power required it, we might well swear that we would never consent to alter it; and the King's Approbation of these Canons made them sufficiently obligatory unto us.
Those that were for it, said, That Episcopacy was Iure Divino, and also settled by a Law, and therefore if the Sovereign Power required it, we might well swear that we would never consent to alter it; and the King's Approbation of these Canons made them sufficiently obligatory unto us.
Those that were against it, said, I. That Episcopacy was either contra jus Divinum, or at best not Jure Divino, and therefore mutable when the King and Parliament pleased.
Those that were against it, said, I. That Episcopacy was either contra jus Divinum, or at best not Iure Divino, and therefore mutable when the King and Parliament pleased.
2. Or at least that it was undeniable, That Archbishops, and Deans, and Chapters, and Arch-deacons, &c. were not all Jure Divino: nay, that the English frame of Diocesans having many hundred Parish Churches under one Bishop in finny gradus, was not only against the Word of God, but destructive of all the Episcopacy which was known in the Church at least for 200 years.
2. Or at least that it was undeniable, That Archbishops, and Deans, and Chapters, and Arch-deacons, &c. were not all Iure Divino: nay, that the English frame of Diocesans having many hundred Parish Churches under one Bishop in fini gradus, was not only against the Word of God, but destructive of all the Episcopacy which was known in the Church at least for 200 years.