A27050:1202
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 › Chapter 6: The same further confirmed by the Ancients.
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.
VI. Concil. Nic. Oecum. 1. Can. 13. decreeth that every one that before death desireth the Sacrament, was to have it from the Bishop: One Ed. in Crab saith, Generaliter omni cuilibet in exitu posito, & poscenti sibi Communionis gratiam tribui, Episcopus probabiliter ex oblatione dare debebit. The other Ed. saith, [Et cura & probatio sit Episcopi.] We are content that the Diocese be as great as the Bishop will perform this for, to examine all such dying men, and give them the Sacrament, or send it them after his distinct Examination.
VI. Concil. Nic. Oecum. 1. Can. 13. decreeth that every one that before death desireth the Sacrament, was to have it from the Bishop: One Ed. in Crab saith, Generaliter omni cuilibet in exitu posito, & poscenti sibi Communionis gratiam tribui, Episcopus probabiliter ex oblatione dare debebit. The other Ed. saith, [Et cura & probatio sit Episcopi.] We are content that the Diocess be as great as the Bishop will perform this for, to examine all such dying men, and give them the Sacrament, or send it them after his distinct Examination.
VII. Gregor. Nazianz. Epist. 22. pag. 786. To. 1. persuading the Church of Caesarea to choose Basil for their Bishop, sendeth his Letters to the Presbyters, the Monks, the Magistrates, and the whole Laity.] And though I doubt not but by that time there were Country Congregations, by this the magnitude of the City Church may be gathered, where the whole Laity could be consulted, and could choose.
VII. Gregor. Nazianz. Epist. 22. pag. 786. To. 1. perswading the Church of Caesarea to chuse Basil for their Bishop, sendeth his Letters to the Presbyters, the Monks, the Magistrates, and the whole Laity.] And though I doubt not but by that time there were Country Congregations, by this the magnitude of the City Church may be gathered, where the whole Laity could be consulted, and could chuse.