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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.
XII. Concil. Gangrens. cap. 7. No one was to receive the Oblations of Fruits, and the First-fruits, due to the Church, out of the Church. And cap. 8. None was to receive them but the Bishop, or he whom the Bishop appointed. This showeth the quantity of the Diocese, and that every Church had one Altar and one Bishop.
XII. Concil. Gangrens. cap. 7. No one was to receive the Oblations of Fruits, and the First-fruits, due to the Church, out of the Church. And cap. 8. None was to receive them but the Bishop, or he whom the Bishop appointed. This sheweth the quantity of the Diocess, and that every Church had one Altar and one Bishop.
XIII. In a Roman Council sub Silvest. it's said, [Ab omni Ecclesia eligatur consecrandus Episcopus, nullo de membris Ecclesiae intercedente, & omni Ecclesia convenient: & nulli Episcopo liceat sine cuncta Ecclesia a novissimo gradu usque ad primum ordinare Neophytum Sylvester Papa dixit, A nobis incipientes moderamine lenitatis judicare, commonemus ut nulli Episcopo liceat quemlibet gradum Clerici ordinare aut consecrare, nisi cum omni adunata Ecclesia, si placet: & dixerunt Episcopi, placet. What can be more fully said, [Let the Bishop to be ordained be chosen by all the Church, no one of the Members of the Church being wanting, and all the Church meeting together. Let it be lawful for no Bishop without the whole Church to ordain.—Not to ordain or consecrate any degree of Clergy-Man, but with the whole Church together in one. And how great then were the Churches, when even at Rome and all about it, The whole Church united, and every member could meet together at every Ordination and Consecration? I scarce know how a testimony can be plainer.
XIII. In a Roman Council sub Silvest. it's said, [Ab omni Ecclesia eligatur consecrandus Episcopus, nullo de membris Ecclesiae intercedente, & omni Ecclesia conveniente: & nulli Episcopo liceat sine cuncta Ecclesia a novissimo gradu usque ad primum ordinare Neophytum Silvester Papa dixit, A nobis incipientes moderamine lenitatis judicare, commonemus ut nulli Episcopo liceat quemlibet gradum Clerici ordinare aut consecrare, nisi cum omni adunata Ecclesia, si placet: & dixerunt Episcopi, placet. What can be more fully said, [Let the Bishop to be ordained be chosen by all the Church, no one of the Members of the Church being wanting, and all the Church meeting together. Let it be lawful for no Bishop without the whole Church to ordain.—Not to ordain or consecrate any degree of Clergy-Man, but with the whole Church together in one. And how great then were the Churches, when even at Rome and all about it, The whole Church united, and every member could meet together at every Ordination and Consecration? I scarce know how a testimony can be plainer.