A27050:1008
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.
4. That by [Greek or Hebrew] is meant the matters and persons of the particular Assembly: And so that every such Assembly had a present Supervisor or Bishop.
4. That by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is meant the matters and persons of the particular Assembly: And so that every such Assembly had a present Supervisor or Bishop.
5. That by [Greek or Hebrew], is meant a local going whither he goeth, and an imitation of him as present; and so that they had his visible presence.
5. That by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is meant a local going whither he goeth, and an imitation of him as present; and so that they had his visible presence.
6. That the prohibition of baptizing and holding their Love-feasting Meetings without him, signified not only [without his general licence at a distance;] but as no Servants must do great matters in the house without the Master, so it implieth here his ordinary presence and particular approbation of the single persons fitness for Baptism, and his conduct of their Love-feasts, and his allowance in case of necessary absence.