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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.
1. Their Extirpation of the true Discipline of Christ, as we conceive, by consequence, though not intentionally; not only as they omitted it, and corrupted it; but as their Principles and Church State had made it unpracticable and impossible, while one Bishop with his Consistory, had the sole Government of a thousand or many hundred Churches, even over many thousands whose Faces they were never like to see; not setting up any Par•chia Government under them: But just as if the Archbishops• (or rather the Patriarchs.) in C•nstanti•• 's days, should have ⟨p. 142⟩deposed all the Bishops in the Empire, and have taken all their Charges upon themselves.
1. Their Extirpation of the true Discipline of Christ, as we conceive, by consequence, though not intentionally; not only as they omitted it, and corrupted it; but as their Principles and Church State had made it unpracticable and impossible, while one Bishop with his Consitory, had the sole Government of a thousand or many hundred Churches, even over many thousands whose Faces they were never like to see; not setting up any Par•chia Government under them: But just as if the Archbishops• (or rather the Patriarchs.) in C•nstanti•• 's days, should have ⟨p. 142⟩deposed all the Bishops in the Empire, and have taken all their Charges upon themselves.
2. That hereby they altered the Species of Churches, and either would de• all particular Churches, and have none but associated Diocesan Churches, (who hold the Communion by Delegates and not personally); or else they would turn all the particular Parochial Churches into Christian Oratories and Schools, while they gave their Pastors but a Teaching and Worshipping Power; but not a Governing.