A27050:1179
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.
29. It is there also decreed, [That no Bishop ordain or judge in another's Parish: else it shall be void:] And they forbid [Foreign Judgments, because it is unmeet that he should be judged by Strangers, who ought to have Judges of the same Province chosen by himself.] But our Diocesans are Strangers to almost all the People, and are not chosen by them. See the rest.
29. It is there also decreed, [That no Bishop ordain or judge in another's Parish: else it shall be void:] And they forbid [Foreign Judgments, because it is unmeet that he should be judged by Strangers, who ought to have Judges of the same Province chosen by himself.] But our Diocesanes are Strangers to almost all the People, and are not chosen by them. See the rest.
Also another is, that every Election of Bishops made by Magistrates be void: yea, all that use the Secular Magistrate to get a Church must be deposed, and separated, and all that join with him: Also if any exact Money; or for affection of his own, drive any from the Ministry, or segregate any of his Clergy, or shut the Temple.
Also another is, that every Election of Bishops made by Magistrates be void: yea, all that use the Secular Magistrate to get a Church must be deposed, and separated, and all that joyn with him: Also if any exact Money; or for affection of his own, drive any from the Ministry, or segregate any of his Clergy, or shut the Temple.
30. A Council at Chalone under Carol. Magn. the Can. 15. condemneth Arch-Deacons that exercise Domination over Parish-Presbyters, and take Fees of them: as matter of Tyranny, and not of Order and Rectitude. And Can. 13. saith, [It is reported of some Brethren (Bishops) that they force them whom they are about to ordain to swear that they are worthy, and will not do contrary to the Canons, and will be obedient to the Bishop that ordaineth them, and to the Church in which they are ordained: Which Oath, because it is very dangerous we all agree shall be forbidden.] By which it appeareth that, 1. The Dioceses were not yet so large as to need such subordinate Governors as ours have: Nor 2. Were Oaths of Canonical Obedience to the Bishop and Church yet thought lawful, but forbidden as dangerous.