A27050:1144
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 › More Testimonies of Councils added to the former Chap. 5.
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.
More Testimonies of Councils added to the former Chap. 5.
Upon the Review, finding some considerable Evidences from Councils before omitted, some shall be here added.
UPon the Review, finding some considerable Evidences from Councils before omitted, some shall be here added.
1. The Roman Clergy called a Council at Rome, Bin. pag. 158. &c. saith, that in the Interregnum they had the charge of the Universal Church: and Cyprian wrote to them as the Governors of the Church of Rome, when they had been a year or two without a Bishop. And their Actions were not null.
2. A Carthage Council with Cyprian condemn even a dead man called Victor,1 because by his Will he left one Faustinus a Presbyter the Guardian of his Sons, and so called him off his Sacred Work to mind Secular things. Did this favour of Bishop's Secular Power, Magistracy or Domination?