A27050:115
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
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.
4. These fixed Ministers as such, they named indifferently, Bishops, Elders, Pastors and Teachers. Whereas those of the same Office in general yet unfixed, are called either by the General name of Christ's Ministers, or Stewards of his Mysteries; And in regard of their special works, some were called Apostles, some Prophets, and some Evangelists.
5. These Apostles though unfixed and having an Indefinite charge, yet went not all one way, but as God's Spirit and prudence guided them, they dispersed themselves into several parts of the World.
6. But as they did many of them first stay long at Jerusalem, so afterward in planting and settling Churches, they sometimes stayed several months or years in one place, and then went to another. And so did the Evangelists or Indefinite Assistants whom they sent forth on the same work.
6. But as they did many of them first stay long at Jerusalem, so afterward in planting and setling Churches, they sometimes stayed several months or years in one place, and then went to another. And so did the Evangelists or Indefinite Assistants whom they sent forth on the same work.