A27050:1176
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.
And Can. 14, 15. That [No Bishop be above three Weeks in another City, nor above two Weeks from his own Church.] Which intimateth that he had one single Church.
And Can. 19. That when a place wants a Bishop, he that held them must not proudly hold them to himself, and hinder them from one; else he must lose that which he hath.
28. The same Canons say (Can. 94.) If a Bishop, six Months after Admonition of other Bishops, neglect to make Catholics of the people belonging to his Seat, any other shall obtain them that shall deliver them from their Heresy.] So that, 1. The Churches were not so big but that there might be divers in one Town. 2. And converting the People is a better Title, than Parish Bounds.
28. The same Canons say (Can. 94.) If a Bishop, six Months after Admonition of other Bishops, neglect to make Catholicks of the people belonging to his Seat, any other shall obtain them that shall deliver them from their Heresie.] So that, 1. The Churches were not so big but that there might be divers in one Town. 2. And converting the People is a better Title, than Parish Bounds.