A27050:1004
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.
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.
Here it is evident, 1. That by [Greek or Hebrew], the Multitude,] is meant the assembling multitude, and not distant people many miles off.
Here it is evident, 1. That by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Multitude,] is meant the assembling multitude, and not distant people many miles off.
2. That by [Greek or Hebrew] apparet, is meant the personal visible appearing presence of the Bishop. And so that every Church-Assembly had a present Bishop ordinarily.