A27050:1124
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.
XVIII. Concil. Carth. 3. cap. 39. & 40. (in Crab) some would have had many (twelve) Bishops at each Bishop's Ordination; but Aurelius desired it might be but three, because [Crebro & pene per diem Dominicum ordinations habemus,] they ⟨p. 39⟩had Ordinations almost every Lord's day, and Tripoli had but five Bishops. How big were these Dioceses where the Bishops could meet almost every Lord's day for Ordinations; and five under Tripoli was an exceeding small number.
XVIII. Concil. Carth. 3. cap. 39. & 40. (in Crab) some would have had many (twelve) Bishops at each Bishop's Ordination; but Aurelius desired it might be but three, because [Crebro & pene per diem Dominicum ordinationes habemus,] they ⟨p. 39⟩had Ordinations almost every Lord's day, and Tripoli had but five Bishops. How big were these Dioceses where the Bishops could meet almost every Lord's day for Ordinations; and five under Tripoly was an exceeding small number.
And cap. 40. If a Bishop were accused at his Ordination, the Cause was to be tried, In eadem plebe cui ordinandus est; And surely it was not to be in many hundred Congregations at once or per vices.
XIX. Concil. Antioch. (before this) Can. 5. (pag. 321. in Crab) Siquis Presbyter aut Diaconus Episcopum proprium contemnens, se ab Ecclesia segregaverit & seorsum colligens Altare constituit (vel in secunda edit. & privatim apud se collectis populis Altar erigere ausus fuerit, &c.) This showeth, 1. That the Presbyters then joined with the Bishop in the same Church. 2. And that then each Church had but one Altar, and to erect another Altar elsewhere, was to set up another Church.