A27050:1023
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.
3. After pag. 20. he praiseth them for being [consonant in Unity with the Bishop, For if any be not within the Altar, he is deprived of the •read of God: For if the prayer of one or two have so great force, how much more that which is of the Bishop and all the Church? He therefore that cometh not to the same, is proud and condemneth himself. And by how much you see the Bishop silent, reverence him the more: for we must receive every one that the Lord of the house sendeth, as him that sent him: you must therefore look upon the Bishop manifest (or visibly present) as to the Lord. Onesimus praiseth your Divine Order.]
Here it is plain that it was a Church where many, yea all the Church joined presentially in prayer with the Bishop, which a thousand Parishes (nor two) do not.
Here it is plain that it was a Church where many, yea all the Church joyned presentially in prayer with the Bishop, which a thousand Parishes (nor two) do not.
4. It was a Church where the Bishop was seen by all when he was silent; and so reverenced for his silent presence.