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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.
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.
2. And to be intra Altar is usually meant of being one admitted to that Eucharistical Communion. 3. And though as we give the Sacrament in private houses to the sick, and have Chapels for the weak and distant, so might some great Churches then, and yet have but one Chancel, Altar or place for the ⟨p. 27⟩Communion of the whole Church; 4. The express words, and the Context and sense fully show that it is personal present Communion that is here spoken of, and therefore in one place. 5. The common use of the word in other Writers, showeth it, (as being intra vel extra Altare, and setting up Altar contra Altar, that is separated Assemblies for such Communion. (6. The most learned and famous Expositors so expound it; such as Master Mede before cited, and Arch-Bishop Usher and others. 7. The Contradictors can feign no other probable sense. For,
2. And to be intra Altare is usually meant of being one admitted to that Eucharistical Communion. 3. And though as we give the Sacrament in private houses to the sick, and have Chappels for the weak and distant, so might some great Churches then, and yet have but one Chancel, Altar or place for the ⟨p. 27⟩Communion of the whole Church; 4. The express words, and the Context and sense fully shew that it is personal present Communion that is here spoken of, and therefore in one place. 5. The common use of the word in other Writers, sheweth it, (as being intra vel extra Altare, and setting up Altare contra Altare, that is separated Assemblies for such Communion. (6. The most learned and famous Expositors so expound it; such as Master Mede before cited, and Arch-Bishop Usher and others. 7. The Contradictors can feign no other probable sense. For,