A27050:1036
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.
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.]
By which words it is plain that this Church which had a Bishop, Presbytery and Deacon, was a Parochial Church that had presential Communion with them, and not as our Dioceses.
By which words it is plain that this Church which had a Bishop, Presbytery and Deacon, was a Parochial Church that had presential Communion with them, and not as our Diocesses.
3. Pag. 33. Having mentioned the Bishop he saith, [Because in the aforesaid persons I behold all the multitude, in faith and love I warn you, study to do all in the concord of God, the Bishop presiding in the place of God, and the Presbyters in the stead of the Confession of the Apostles, and the Deacons, &c.
3. Pag. 33. Having mentioned the Bishop he saith, [Because in the aforesaid persons I behold all the multitude, in faith and love I warn you, study to do all in the concord of God, the Bishop presiding in the place of God, and the Presbyters in the stead of the Consession of the Apostles, and the Deacons, &c.