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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.
And it's said, Can. 31. Missas die Dominico secularibus totas audire speciali ordine praecipimus; ita ut ante benedictionem sacerdotis egredi populus non praesumat, quod si fecerit, ab Episcopo publice confundatur. So that there must be a daily pronunciation ⟨p. 37⟩of the Blessing each Lords day, and that not by the Presbyters but the Bishop, who must rebuke them that go out before it; which showeth that each Church had a Bishop.
And it's said, Can. 31. Missas die Dominico secularibus totas audire speciali ordine praecipimus; ita ut ante benedictionem sacerdotis egredi populus non praesumat, quod si fecerit, ab Episcopo publice confundatur. So that there must be a daily pronunciation ⟨p. 37⟩of the Blessing each Lords day, and that not by the Presbyters but the Bishop, who must rebuke them that go out before it; which sheweth that each Church had a Bishop.
And after, [Qui solemnitatum, id est Paschae & natalis domini vel Pentecostes festivitatibus, cum Episcopis interesse neglexerint, quum in civitatibus communionis vel benedictionis accipiendae causa positos see nose debeant, triennio communion priventur Ecclesiae.] By which it appeareth that in a City there were no more Christians or Church-members, than could congregate with the Bishop on the Festivals for Communion; when all the neglecters were to be deprived of the Communion for three years.
And after, [Qui solemnitatum, id est Paschae & natalis domini vel Pentecostes festivitatibus, cum Episcopis interesse neglexerint, quum in civitatibus communionis vel benedictionis accipiendae causa positos se nosse debeant, triennio communione priventur Ecclesiae.] By which it appeareth that in a City there were no more Christians or Church-members, than could congregate with the Bishop on the Festivals for Communion; when all the neglecters were to be deprived of the Communion for three years.