A27050:1003
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
Part 2 › Chapter 5: The same proved by the full Testimony of Antiquity.
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.
Since the writing of this (about thirteen years) I have seen Isaac Vossius his Florentine Ignatius, Edit. 2. and also had some speech with Bishop Gunning, confidently denying that by [Greek or Hebrew] is meant one material Altar or place of Communicating: I will therefore review the Texts of Ignatius according to Isaac Vossius, and answer this Bishops confident assertion.
Since the writing of this (about thirteen years) I have seen Isaac Vossius his Florentine Ignatius, Edit. 2. and also had some speech with Bishop Gunning, confidently denying that by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is meant one material Altar or place of Communicating: I will therefore review the Texts of Ignatius according to Isaac Vossius, and answer this Bishops confident assertion.
1. Epist. ad Smyrn. p. 4. [Greek or Hebrew], &c. Omnes Episcopum sequimini ut Jesus Christus Patrem; & Presbyterium ut Apostolos; Diaconos autem revereamini ut Dei mandatum. Nullus sine Episcopo aliquid operetur eorum quae conveniunt in Ecclesiam: Illa firma Gratiarum actio ([Greek or Hebrew]) reputetur, quae sub ipso est, vel quam utique ipse concesserit: ubi utique apparet Episcopus, illic multitudo sit: quemadmodum utique ubi est Jesus Christus illic Catholica Ecclesia: Non licitum est sine Episcopo neque baptizare, neque agapen facere.
1. Epist. ad Smyrn. p. 4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. Omnes Episcopum sequimini ut Jesus Christus Patrem; & Presbyterium ut Apostolos; Diaconos autem revereamini ut Dei mandatum. Nullus sine Episcopo aliquid operetur eorum quae conveniunt in Ecclesiam: Illa firma Gratiarum actio (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) reputetur, quae sub ipso est, vel quam utique ipse concesserit: ubi utique apparet Episcopus, illic multitudo sit: quemadmodum utique ubi est Jesus Christus illic Catholica Ecclesia: Non licitum est sine Episcopo neque baptizare, neque agapen facere.