A27050:1069
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.
Saith Master Mede before cited, of these words, [As the Jews had their Synagogues, so perhaps might they have more Oratories than one; though their Altar were but one, there namely where the Bishop was. Die solis omnes, &c. (here he cites these words,) Namely as he there tells us, to celebrate and participate of the Holy Eucharist. Why was this? but because they had not many places to celebrate in.]
V. Tertullian is as plain and full: Apol. c. 39. Corpus sumus de conscientia religionis, & disciplinae unitate, & spei foedere: Coimus in Coetum, & Congregationem, ut ad Deum quasi manu facta precationibus ambiamus orantes—Cogimur ad divinarum literarum commemorationem.—Certe fidem sanctis vocibus pascimus: spem erigimus, fiduciam figimus, disciplinam praeceptorum nihilominus inculcationibus densamus. Ibidem etiam exhortationes, castigationes, & censura divina. Nam & judicatur magno cum pondere, ut apud certos de Dei conspectu; summumque futuri judicii praejudicium est, siquis ita deliquerit, ut a Communicatione orationis & Conventus & omnis Sancti Commercii relegatur: Praesident probati quique Seniors, &c.
V. Tertullian is as plain and full: Apol. c. 39. Corpus sumus de conscientia religionis, & disciplinae unitate, & spei foedere: Coimus in Coetum, & Congregationem, ut ad Deum quasi manu facta precationibus ambiamus orantes—Cogimur ad divinarum literarum commemorationem.—Certe fidem sanctis vocibus pascimus: spem erigimus, fiduciam figimus, disciplinam praeceptorum nihilominus inculcationibus densamus. Ibidem etiam exhortationes, castigationes, & censura divina. Nam & judicatur magno cum pondere, ut apud certos de Dei conspectu; summumque futuri judicii praejudicium est, siquis ita deliquerit, ut a Communicatione orationis & Conventus & omnis Sancti Commercii relegatur: Praesident probati quique Seniores, &c.
And de Corona Milit. cap. 3. Eucharistiae Sacramentum, & in tempore victus, & omnibus mandatum a domino, etiam antelucanis coetibus; nec de aliorum manu quam praesidentium sumimus.