A27050:1025
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 where the Bishop was seen by all when he was silent; and so reverenced for his silent presence.
5. It was a Church, which they that wilfully absented themselves from were self-condemned: But a man can be but in one Parish at once.
6. It was a Church where they might all see [Greek or Hebrew], the Bishop manifest, that is, Perspicuum, visible.
6. It was a Church where they might all see 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Bishop manifest, that is, Perspicuum, visible.
7. It was a Church where all that had the Sacred Bread were [within the Altar,] that is, the one Sacrarium, or place of communicating in the Eucharist.