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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.
XV. In the Epistle of the 1. Concil. Nic. ad Eccles. Aegypt. (in Crab. pag. 262. T. 1.) Presbyters were to be made, [Solummodo sivideantur digni, & populus eos elegerit, condecernente simul & designante maxim Alexandriae Civitatis Episcopo.] Still the people that had the choice were no more than could meet to choose.
XV. In the Epistle of the 1. Concil. Nic. ad Eccles. Aegypt. (in Crab. pag. 262. T. 1.) Presbyters were to be made, [Solummodo sivideantur digni, & populus eos elegerit, condecernente simul & designante maxime Alexandriae Civitatis Episcopo.] Still the people that had the choice were no more than could meet to chuse.
And even in the Arabic Canons ascribed to this Council by some of late it's said, Can. 72. Sic Episcopi & Sacerdotes si Civitates suas & Altaria propter alia majora relinquerent, male facerent; which shows that each City even then had but one Altar or Meeting for Sacramental Communion: though when these were written, there were other Churches in Villages that had Altars.
And even in the Arabick Canons ascribed to this Council by some of late it's said, Can. 72. Sic Episcopi & Sacerdotes si Civitates suas & Altaria propter alia majora relinquerent, male facerent; which shews that each City even then had but one Altar or Meeting for Sacramental Communion: though when these were written, there were other Churches in Villages that had Altars.
And in Pisan. Can. 57. Archi-presbyter in absentia Episcopi honoretur tanquam Episcopus, quia est loco ejus, & sit caput Sacerdotum qui sub potestate ejus sunt in Ecclesia. The Bishop then was but such a Head of Priests in the same Church, as an Arch-Presbyter might be in his absence.