A27050:1049
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.
1. That they all join in one Assembly for the Eucharist. Which signifieth one Body and Blood of Christ. 2. And that there be one Altar for this Communion. 3. And one Bishop. 4. And one Presbytery with his Deacons with him.
1. That they all joyn in one Assembly for the Eucharist. Which signifieth one Body and Blood of Christ. 2. And that there be one Altar for this Communion. 3. And one Bishop. 4. And one Presbytery with his Deacons with him.
But here Bishop Gunning saith, It is not meant of one material Altar.
Answ. 1. It must be noted that (as Master Mede and others have observed) [Greek or Hebrew] is used in Church Writers for the Chancel, Sacrarium, or place where the Altar stood, as well as for the Altar it self: Into which place the Communicants only were admitted; to which form our Chancels are made.
Answ. 1. It must be noted that (as Master Mede and others have observed) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is used in Church Writers for the Chancel, Sacrarium, or place where the Altar stood, as well as for the Altar it self: Into which place the Communicants only were admitted; to which form our Chancels are made.