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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 › 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.
7. Greg. Nazianz. pag. 528. &c. showeth how Churches were enlarged and changed when the strife began between Mea & Tua, Antiqua & Nova, Nobilior & Ignobilior, Multitudine Opulentior aut Tenuior.
7. Greg. Nazianz. pag. 528. &c. sheweth how Churches were enlarged and changed when the strife began between Mea & Tua, Antiqua & Nova, Nobilior & Ignobilior, Multitudine Opulentior aut Tenuior.
8. After Lucifer Calaritanus ordained Paulinus, Antioch had long two Bishops, half being his Flock, and half cleaving to Meletius.
9. Nazianzen had in the great City of Constantinople but one of the small Churches. (the Arians having the greater) till Theodosius gave him the greater: And those Hearers he was Bishop over.
10. A Council at Capua ordered that both the Bishops Flocks in Antioch (under Evagrius and Flavian) should live together in Love and Peace.