A27050:1033
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.
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.
11. And that it was such a Church that brake one Bread, professing one faith, in presence, with undivided minds. So plainly doth this Epistle decide our controversy.
11. And that it was such a Church that brake one Bread, professing one faith, in presence, with undivided minds. So plainly doth this Epistle decide our controversie.
IV. The next Epistle is Ad Magnesios. In which he saith, Canto Ecclesias in quibus Unionem oro Carnis & Spiritus. Union of Flesh signifieth local Communion.
2. Pag. 31. he saith, [I am dignified to see you by Dama your Bishop worthy of God, and the worthy Presbyters Bassus and Apollonius, and my fellow Servant Sotion the Deacon, whom I enjoy because he is subject to the Bishop and Presbytery, &c.]