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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.
XXI. Concil. Laodic. Presbyters must not go into the Church (or Sacrarium as the other Ed.) before the Bishop, nor sit in the Seats, but must go in with the Bishop, or sit in lower Seats (till he comes.) Which showeth that they were all in one Church. And if there had been many Churches distant where there were no Bishops but Presbyters only, it's like that Case would have been excepted, as well as is the Case of the Bishop's [Sickness and Peregrination.] See Binnius three Versions, To. 1. pag. 292. and Crab's two Vol. 1. pag. 310.
XXI. Concil. Laodic. Presbyters must not go into the Church (or Sacrarium as the other Ed.) before the Bishop, nor sit in the Seats, but must go in with the Bishop, or sit in lower Seats (till he comes.) Which sheweth that they were all in one Church. And if there had been many Churches distant where there were no Bishops but Presbyters only, it's like that Case would have been excepted, as well as is the Case of the Bishop's [Sickness and Peregrination.] See Binnius three Versions, To. 1. pag. 292. and Crab's two Vol. 1. pag. 310.
Can. 28. Forbidding the Agapae, or Church Feasts to be made in the Church, implieth that other Houses could contain the Church Members. And Can. 58. Forbidding Oblationes fieri vel celebrari in domibus ab Episcopis vel Presbyteris, doth show that till they built Chapels there was but one Congregation in a City, which was where the Bishop was.
Can. 28. Forbidding the Agapae, or Church Feasts to be made in the Church, implieth that other Houses could contain the Church Members. And Can. 58. Forbidding Oblationes fieri vel celebrari in domibus ab Episcopis vel Presbyteris, doth shew that till they built Chappels there was but one Congregation in a City, which was where the Bishop was.
XXII. Decretum Innocent. 1. P. Rom. (in Crab, Vol. 1. pag. 453.) Dicit, De consignandis infantibus manifestum est non ab alio, quam ab Episcopis fieri licere: Nam Presbyteri licet sint Sacerdotes, Pontificatus tamen apicem non habent, &c. And for how many one Bishop can do this with all his other work also, you may judge.