A27050:1070
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.
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.
And further, [Aquam adituri itidem, sed & aliquando prius in Ecclesia sub antistitis manu contestamur, nos renunciare Diabolo & pompae & angelis ejus.]