A27050:1096
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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And in cap. 30. and many Chapters there is mentioned often the Bishops doing all without any help save the Deacons, which would make one think that de facto Doctor Hammond was in the right, and that some of the Constitutions were written when in most Churches there was no Presbyters with the Bishop but Deacons only.
Cap. 32. If the Deacon knew any to be poor, he must tell the Bishop, and do nothing without him. How large was this Diocese? cap. 34. This Bishop must be loved as a Father, feared as a King, honoured as a God, offering him our Fruits and the works of our hands for his Blessing; giving him as God's Priest our First-fruits, Tithes, First-fruits of Corn, Wine, Oil, Apples, Wool, and all that God shall give us.] Was all this carried him from many hundred Parishes, many score Miles?
Cap. 32. If the Deacon knew any to be poor, he must tell the Bishop, and do nothing without him. How large was this Diocess? cap. 34. This Bishop must be loved as a Father, feared as a King, honoured as a God, offering him our Fruits and the works of our hands for his Blessing; giving him as God's Priest our First-fruits, Tythes, First-fruits of Corn, Wine, Oyl, Apples, Wool, and all that God shall give us.] Was all this carried him from many hundred Parishes, many score Miles?
And cap. 36. The Bishop's Church was no farther off than that all the Members were to come to it in the morning before they went to any work, and at Evening when they had done. How big was this Diocese?
And cap. 36. The Bishop's Church was no farther off than that all the Members were to come to it in the morning before they went to any work, and at Evening when they had done. How big was this Diocess?