A27050:1127
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.
Can. 8. Presbyteri qui sunt in agris Canonicas Epistolas dare non possunt—Chorepiscopi autem—dare possunt—This showeth that then the Country Villages had Chorepiscopos with Presbyters.
Can. 8. Presbyteri qui sunt in agris Canonicas Epistolas dare non possunt—Chorepiscopi autem—dare possunt—This sheweth that then the Country Villages had Chorepiscopos with Presbyters.
Can. 10 Qui in vicis vel possissionibus Chorepiscopi nominantur quamvis manus impositionem Episcoporum perceperint, & ut Episcopi consecrati sint, tamen Sanctae Synodo placuit, ut modum proprium recognoscant, ut gubernent sibi subjectas Ecclesias earumque moderamine curaque contenti sint. This showeth that then the Churches in Villages had their Bishops, though under the City Bishops.
Can. 10 Qui in vicis vel possissionibus Chorepiscopi nominantur quamvis manus impositionem Episcoporum perceperint, & ut Episcopi consecrati sint, tamen Sanctae Synodo placuit, ut modum proprium recognoscant, ut gubernent sibi subjectas Ecclesias earumque moderamine curaque contenti sint. This sheweth that then the Churches in Villages had their Bishops, though under the City Bishops.
Can. 16. A Bishop that put himself into a vacant Church without the consent of a perfect Council, where must be the Metropolitan, must be cast out, etsi cunctus populus quem diripuit eum habere delegerit: which showeth that the whole people were no more than could meet to choose him.
Can. 16. A Bishop that put himself into a vacant Church without the consent of a perfect Council, where must be the Metropolitane, must be cast out, etsi cunctus populus quem diripuit eum habere delegerit: which sheweth that the whole people were no more than could meet to chuse him.