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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.
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.
III. The next is the Epistle to the Ephesians; where, 1. Pag. 17. he willeth them to love their Bishop, and all of them to imitate him: which supposeth that they knew him (and so doth not one in an hundred in most of our Dioceses, nor ever see his face.)
III. The next is the Epistle to the Ephesians; where, 1. Pag. 17. he willeth them to love their Bishop, and all of them to imitate him: which supposeth that they knew him (and so doth not one in an hundred in most of our Diocesses, nor ever see his face.)
2. Pag. 19. He tells them that [They agree in the Sentence of the Bishop, and so doth the worthy Presbytery agree with him, as the strings of a Harp; and therefore in their consent and consounding love Jesus Christ is sung: and they are all made a Chore, that being consonant in consent, receiving in unity divine melody, they might with one voice sing by Jesus Christ to the Father that he may hear them, and know by whom they do good.] Where it is most plainly signified that it was a Church which sung to God by Christ in one Chore, in unity of concenting voice, under one Bishop and his Presbytery and Deacons present and conducting them.