A27050:1014
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.
Here it is evident, 1. That it was a Church of which Widows were a part that is here meant: But Widows then were special parts of particular Parish-Churches, and not common to a Diocese of many such.
Here it is evident, 1. That it was a Church of which Widows were a part that is here meant: But Widows then were special parts of particular Parish-Churches, and not common to a Diocess of many such.
2. It was such a Church where the Bishop himself was to take care of all the Widows, and see that they were not neglected: And that could not be done to a Diocese of many score or hundred Parishes.
2. It was such a Church where the Bishop himself was to take care of all the Widows, and see that they were not neglected: And that could not be done to a Diocess of many score or hundred Parishes.
3. It was a Church where the Bishop as present could see to all that was done.
4. It was a Church that was oft to assemble or be congregate: which a Diocese never doth: For it is frequent Congregations of the same persons that is here commanded or desired.