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A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiours, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
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.
3. That he hath no power to hinder any confirmed, or adult persons from the Sacraments, on the account of the grossest ignorance or infidelity: when multitudes among us know not what the Sacrament is, nor know the essentials of the Christian Faith.
4. He hath no power to convent any open offender before him, to call him to repentance: They may choose to come to him, or to open their doors to him, or speak to him, if he come to them.
4. He hath no power to convent any open offender before him, to call him to repentance: They may chuse to come to him, or to open their doors to him, or speak to him, if he come to them.
5. He hath no power to call them to Repentance openly before the Church, or pray by name for their Repentance; or admonish them.
6. He hath no power to judge any person to be Excommunicate.