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A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
AN ANSWER TO Dean STILINGFLEETS, &c. › Chapter 7: The Reply to his Third Part: The beginning.
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.
Sect. 5. The same I say of Carthage, which was the Metropolis of Africa, and the first of six Provinces before Justinian, and of seven after, and Proconsular, and the Church called Africae Caput as August. ep. 162. The sixth and seventh Carthage Councils tell us of the distribution of the Provinces, decreeing three Judges to be sent out of each Province, viz. Carthage, Numidia, Byzacena, Mauritania, &c. Yea Leo 9. P. in Epist. ad Thom. &c. saith that the Bishop of Carthage was post Pont. Rom. primus Archiepiscopus & totius Africae maximus Metropolitanus, (Though yet Binnius truly say that in Cyprian's time he was not an Archbishop, that is, no proper Governor of Bishops, because they concluded in Council, nemo nostrum dicitur Episcopus Episcoporum; but he was the chief of that great Province. And the Dr. himself out of Victor mentioneth one Cresseus that had one hundred and twenty Bishops under him: He was Metropolitan of Aquitana and a Diocese then having many Provinces; how many be in a Diocese Victor there […] you that the Bishop of Carthage in his own Eugitane Province had one hundred sixty four Bishops. And how great were their Churches then? ⟨p. 103⟩and L. 2. when he lamenteth the great number of their banished, Bishops, Presbyters and the Church-members were 4976. And one Parish here hath 40000 if not more. He that considereth that Cyrus was at most but 60 miles from Antioch the Patriarchal Seat, and that a Carthage Council had sometimes 600 Bishops, and the Donatists perhaps had as many; and that as he saith, Cresceus had one hundred and twenty Bishops under him, and that Cyprian so often tells us how Bishops were chosen by all the People, and how he managed his Discipline in the presence of all his Plebs, (Laity) and by their consent; and how he telleth that it was the peoples duty to separate from the communion of a sinning Bishop (which implieth communion before) and how the Bishops in Council put the question, When a Church wanted a Bishop, whether one of them that was a Bishop and had perhaps but one or two or three Presbyters was bound to part with one to that wanting Church to make a Bishop of?
Sect. 5. The same I say of Carthage, which was the Metropolis of Africa, and the first of six Provinces before Justinian, and of seven after, and Proconsular, and the Church called Africae Caput as August. ep. 162. The sixth and seventh Carthage Councils tell us of the distribution of the Provinces, decreeing three Judges to be sent out of each Province, viz. Carthage, Numidia, Byzacena, Mauritania, &c. Yea Leo 9. P. in Epist. ad Thom. &c. saith that the Bishop of Carthage was post Pont. Rom. primus Archiepiscopus & totius Africae maximus Metropolitanus, (Though yet Binnius truly say that in Cyprian's time he was not an Archbishop, that is, no proper Governor of Bishops, because they concluded in Council, nemo nostrum dicitur Episcopus Episcoporum; but he was the chief of that great Province. And the Dr. himself out of Victor mentioneth one Cresseus that had one hundred and twenty Bishops under him: He was Metropolitane of Aquitana and a Diocess then having many Provinces; how many be in a Diocess Victor there you that the Bishop of Carthage in his own Eugitane Province had one hundred sixty four Bishops. And how great were their Churches then?