A27050:1121
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 Cap. 9. The Vote of the whole Diocese without the Arch-bishop shall not serve to choose a Bishop, though all gathered together.
And Cap. 9. The Vote of the whole Diocess without the Arch-bishop shall not serve to chuse a Bishop, though all gathered together.
XVI. The Concil. Vasense granted leave for Presbyters to preach and Deacons to read Homilies in Country Parishes, which showeth both that Bishops were the ordinary Preachers to their whole Flocks before, and that these Parishes were yet but new, and perhaps but Chapels that yet had not Altars and the Lord's Supper.
XVI. The Concil. Vasense granted leave for Presbyters to preach and Deacons to read Homilies in Country Parishes, which sheweth both that Bishops were the ordinary Preachers to their whole Flocks before, and that these Parishes were yet but new, and perhaps but Chappels that yet had not Altars and the Lord's Supper.
XVII. Binnius in Concil. Ephes. 1. To. 2. cap. 20. saith, [Dalmatius told the Emperor that there were six thousand Bishops under the Metropolitan sent to the Council that were against Nestorius;] And there was a great number on the other side with Johan. Antiochen. who cast out Cyril and Memnon. How great think you were these Bishops Dioceses?