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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.
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.
9. He addeth ut unio sit carnalis & spiritualis, that is, of present bodies and of minds.
V. The next is the Epistle to the Philadelphians: where praising them for their union with their Bishop as the strings of a Harp, he saith, [Study therefore to use one Eucharist (or Thanksgiving) that is, to join all together in the Eucharistical Communion:) For there is one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one Cup (that is, which is there Sacramentally represented and given) into Union of his Blood, one Altar, and one Bishop, with the Presbytery and the Deacons my fellow Servants; that what you do, you may do according to God.]
V. The next is the Epistle to the Philadelphians: where praising them for their union with their Bishop as the strings of a Harp, he saith, [Study therefore to use one Eucharist (or Thanksgiving) that is, to joyn all together in the Eucharistical Communion:) For there is one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one Cup (that is, which is there Sacramentally represented and given) into Union of his Blood, one Altar, and one Bishop, with the Presbytery and the Deacons my fellow Servants; that what you do, you may do according to God.]