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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. And after it's said, [Let there be nothing among you which may divide (or separate) you; but be united to the Bishop and Presidents, &c. Which showeth the same present Presidency as aforesaid.
4. And after it's said, [Let there be nothing among you which may divide (or separate) you; but be united to the Bishop and Presidents, &c. Which sheweth the same present Presidency as aforesaid.
5. Pag. 33. He repeateth [without the Bishop and Presbyters do nothing] which no reason can interpret of any Presbyters but the present.
So 6. Pag. 34. [Let nothing else seem reasonable proper to your selves; but one Prayer for the same thing, one deprecation, one understanding, one hope in love and undefiled joy.]
Which importeth their present Communion in Prayer and Profession.