A27050:1140
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.
XXIV. To make short, and leave no place for doubting, I will join several Canons which decree that [No Man shall be a Clerk to two Churches, nor an Abbot to two Monasteries, nor a Bishop to two Cities or Churches.]
XXIV. To make short, and leave no place for doubting, I will joyn several Canons which decree that [No Man shall be a Clerk to two Churches, nor an Abbot to two Monasteries, nor a Bishop to two Cities or Churches.]
So Concil. Oecumen. Nic. 2. Can. 15. (in Bin. pag. 394.) Clericus ab hoc deinceps tempore, in duabus Ecclesiis non collocetur. Ab ipsa enim domini voce audivimus, non posse quenquam duobus dominis servire.
And Concil. Chalcedon. Can. 10. juxta Dionys. Non licet Clericum conscribi in duabus simul Ecclesiis. And though then the Can. 17. showeth that there were Singularum Ecclesiarum Rusticae Parochiae vel possessiones, yet these were but like our Chapels, and not called Churches, but only the Bishop's Church. And if the Secular Power made any place a City, it was thereupon to follow the Secular Order. So of Abbots, Concil. Venet. Can. 8. (in Crab, pag. 948.) no one was to have two Monasteries; Vid. Concil. Agath. Can. 38.
And Concil. Chalcedon. Can. 10. juxta Dionys. Non licet Clericum conscribi in duabus simul Ecclesiis. And though then the Can. 17. sheweth that there were Singularum Ecclesiarum Rusticae Parochiae vel possessiones, yet these were but like our Chappels, and not called Churches, but only the Bishop's Church. And if the Secular Power made any place a City, it was thereupon to follow the Secular Order. So of Abbots, Concil. Venet. Can. 8. (in Crab, pag. 948.) no one was to have two Monasteries; Vid. Concil. Agath. Can. 38.