A27050:1017
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. 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.
4. It was a Church that was oft to assemble or be congregate: which a Diocess never doth: For it is frequent Congregations of the same persons that is here commanded or desired.
5. It was a Church so assembled that the Bishop could by name take an account who was absent by his own eye: Yea, even of the Servant-men and Maids.
6. And such as the Bishop could himself marry all that were married in it, or at least be their particular Counsellor therein: And exhort all Husbands and Wives to their duties.
7. He after saith, [I am of one soul with them that are subject to the Bishop, Presbyters and Deacons.] Signifying that these three were the present Officers of one and the same particular Church.