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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 › 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.
And of so small a place as Forum Cornelii, instead of committing it to a subject Presbyter, he saith, (Epist. 63. p. 111. ad Constant. Arausicorum Episcopum) Commendo tibi fili Ecclesiam, quae est ad forum Cornelii, quo cam de proximo invisas frequentius, donec ei ordinetur Episcopus.
And pag. 117. Ad Eccles. Vercellens. post obitum Eusebii Epist. he writeth to them thus to choose another, Quanto magis ubi plena est in nomine domini Congregatio; ubi Universorum Postulatio congruit, dubitare vos nequaquam oportet, ibi dominum Jesum & voluntatis authorem, & petitionis arbitrum fore, & ordinationis praesulem, vel largitorem gratiae.] So that this famous Church was no greater than that all the people could meet and agree in the Choice or Postulation of a Bishop.
And pag. 117. Ad Eccles. Vercellens. post obitum Eusebii Epist. he writeth to them thus to chuse another, Quanto magis ubi plena est in nomine domini Congregatio; ubi Universorum Postulatio congruit, dubitare vos nequaquam oportet, ibi dominum Jesum & voluntatis authorem, & petitionis arbitrum fore, & ordinationis praesulem, vel largitorem gratiae.] So that this famous Church was no greater than that all the people could meet and agree in the Choice or Postulation of a Bishop.
So To. 4. de Poenitent. l. 5. c. 15. Tota Ecclesia suscipit onus peccatoris cui compatiendum & fletu, & oratione & dolore est. By which it seems that all the Church (that is, so great a part as might be called all) was used to be present each meeting when Penitents lamented their sin.