A27050:1030
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.
After pag. 25. he saith [Hasten therefore to assemble frequently, for the Eucharist (or thanksgiving) of God, and for Glory: For when you oft meet for the same thing, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and his perdition loosed in the concord of your faith.]
9. Here it is plain that it was a Church that used to meet together for the Eucharist; manifesting therein the concord of the faith of all the Church.
And after pag. 29. he saith, [Because they who according to Man, do all by name meet commonly in Grace in one faith, and in Jesus Christ, in your obeying the Bishop, and Presbytery, with an undivided mind, breaking one bread, &c.]
10. Here it is signified that the Bishop and Presbytery were all present as Guides in one Assembly, which was that Church which they supervised.