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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.
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.
7. He addeth, [All of you run (or meet) together into one Temple of God, as to one Altar.] This needeth only an impartial Reader, and it's plain.
8. And pag. 37. [With your worthily honoured Bishop, and the worthily Complex Spiritual Crown of your Presbytery, and the Deacons, &c.] Where no Presbyters are mentioned but the Bishops Presbytery which sate about him in the Church, called the Complex Corona.
8. And pag. 37. [With your worthily honoured Bishop, and the worthily Complexe Spiritual Crown of your Presbytery, and the Deacons, &c.] Where no Presbyters are mentioned but the Bishops Presbytery which sate about him in the Church, called the Complexe Corona.