A27050:1057
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. It is well called One agreeably to our present sense: For, 1. It is one and the same Bread, though not one piece, which is there present, consecrated and divided to them all; and one Cup or present quantity of Wine which is there distributed among them. 2. And it is One body and blood or sacrificed Christ, which is in every Church represented and offered by One Bishop at one Altar. This doth but confirm our Exposition. But what can be so plain as to convince the prejudiced and unwilling?
Answ. It is well called One agreeably to our present sence: For, 1. It is one and the same Bread, though not one piece, which is there present, consecrated and divided to them all; and one Cup or present quantity of Wine which is there distributed among them. 2. And it is One body and blood or sacrificed Christ, which is in every Church represented and offered by One Bishop at one Altar. This doth but confirm our Exposition. But what can be so plain as to convince the prejudiced and unwilling?
2. Pag. 45. he willeth [``the Church to send a Deacon to Antioch as other neighbour Churches sent Bishops, and some Presbyters and Deacons.] And can any man think that a Diocese met to choose a Deacon to go on a visit, or that it was a Diocesan Bishop that was sent by a Diocese, yea that all these neighbour Churches that sent them were so many Dioceses?
2. Pag. 45. he willeth [``the Church to send a Deacon to Antioch as other neighbour Churches sent Bishops, and some Presbyters and Deacons.] And can any man think that a Diocess met to chuse a Deacon to go on a visit, or that it was a Diocesane Bishop that was sent by a Diocess, yea that all these neighbour Churches that sent them were so many Diocesses?
VI. The next is the Epistle ad Trallesios. Where he saith of the Bishop that came to him, [That he saw all the multitude in him;] that is, the Assembly. And as before he bids them, [Do nothing without the Bishop, and be subject to the Presbytery; and that as to the Counsel of God, and Conjunction of Apostles] adding, [For without these the Church is not called:.] what can be plainer to show that it was a Church that had a present Bishop and Council of Presbyters conjunct, without whom the Church was not lawfully called together? So that every Church had such.