A27050:1059
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.
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.
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 shew 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.
2. And pag. 50. he saith again, [Not inflated, but being inseparable from God, Jesus Christ, and the Bishop and the Orders of the Apostles (that is, the Confess of ⟨p. 28⟩Presbyters) He that is within the Altar is clean; and he that is without the Altar is not clean; that is, he that doth any thing (in the Church) without the Bishop, Presbytery and Deacon, is not clean in Conscience: which plainly showeth that every Church-Assembly had a guiding Bishop, Presbytery and ministering Deacon.
2. And pag. 50. he saith again, [Not inflated, but being inseparable from God, Jesus Christ, and the Bishop and the Orders of the Apostles (that is, the Confess of ⟨p. 28⟩Presbyters) He that is within the Altar is clean; and he that is without the Altar is not clean; that is, he that doth any thing (in the Church) without the Bishop, Presbytery and Deacon, is not clean in Conscience: which plainly sheweth that every Church-Assembly had a guiding Bishop, Presbytery and ministring Deacon.