A27050:1090
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.
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So cap. 20. opening the Bishop's duty to the Laity, he repeateth, Omnes monens, omnes increpans, &c. And ibid. Medice ergo Ecclesiae Domini adhibe medicinam cuique aegrotantium convenientem: Omnibus modis cura, sana, factos sanos read Ecclesiae; pasce gregem, non per vim, neque imperiose, cum ludibrio & despectu quasi dominatum teneas, sed tanquam bonus pastor in sinum ac complexum agnos congrega & oves gravidas hortare.
So cap. 20. opening the Bishop's duty to the Laity, he repeateth, Omnes monens, omnes increpans, &c. And ibid. Medice ergo Ecclesiae Domini adhibe medicinam cuique aegrotantium convenientem: Omnibus modis cura, sana, factos sanos redde Ecclesiae; pasce gregem, non per vim, neque imperiose, cum ludibrio & despectu quasi dominatum teneas, sed tanquam bonus pastor in sinum ac complexum agnos congrega & oves gravidas hortare.
And it concerneth them to know well what they do, for cap. 2. Scitote quod qui eum, qui injuriam non fecit, ejicit, aut qui se convertit non recipit, fratrem suum occidit, & sanguinem ejus fudit, sicut Cain sanguinem fratris sui fudit; cujus sanguis, qui ad Deum clamat, requiretur.—Similiter eveniet ei qui ab Episcopo suo sine justa causa fuerit excommunicatus: Qui tanquam pestiferum ejicit eum qui est extra culpam, is quidem saevior est interfectore.—Violentior est ipso homicida qui corpus perimit, is qui innocentem ex ecclesia ejicit.
And it concerneth them to know well what they do, for cap. 2. Scitote quod qui eum, qui injuriam non fecit, ejicit, aut qui se convertit non recipit, fratrem suum occidit, & sanguinem ejus fudit, sicut Cain sanguinem fratris sui fudit; cujus sanguis, qui ad Deum clamat, requiretur.—Similiter eveniet ei qui ab Episcopo suo sine iusta causa fuerit excommunicatus: Qui tanquam pestiferum ejicit eum qui est extra culpam, is quidem saevior est interfectore.—Violentior est ipso homicida qui corpus perimit, is qui innocentem ex ecclesia ejicit.