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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.
XXII. Socrates, l. 7. c. 3. tells us a notable story of Theodosius Bishop of Synada, who went to Constantinople for Power to persecute Agapetus the Macedonian Bishop in that City. But while he was absent Agapetus turned Orthodox, and his Church and the Orthodox Church joined together, and made Agapetus Bishop, and excluded Theodosius: who made his Complaint of it to Atticus the Patriarch of Constantinople (a wise and peaceable Man) who desired Theodosius to live quietly in private, because it was for the Churches good.] (May such causes oft have such decisions, and Lordly troublesome Prelates such success.) By which story you may guess how many Congregations both Parties made in Synada.
XXII. Socrates, l. 7. c. 3. tells us a notable story of Theodosius Bishop of Synada, who went to Constantinople for Power to persecute Agapetus the Macedonian Bishop in that City. But while he was absent Agapetus turned Orthodox, and his Church and the Orthodox Church joyned together, and made Agapetus Bishop, and excluded Theodosius: who made his Complaint of it to Atticus the Patriarch of Constantinople (a wise and peaceable Man) who desired Theodosius to live quietly in private, because it was for the Churches good.] (May such causes oft have such decisions, and Lordly troublesome Prelates such success.) By which story you may guess how many Congregations both Parties made in Synada.
XXIII. Socrates, l. 7. c. 26. tells us that Sisinnius was chosen Bishop of Constantinople by the Laity against the Clergy. And cap. 28. Sisinnius sent Proclus to be Bishop of Cyzi•um; but the People chose Dalmatius and refused him.] And this custom of the People's Choice, must needs rise at first from hence, that the whole Church being but one Congregation was present: For what Right can any one Church in a Diocese have to choose a Bishop for all the rest, any more than the many hundred that are far off, and uncapable to choose?
XXIII. Socrates, l. 7. c. 26. tells us that Sisinnius was chosen Bishop of Constantinople by the Laity against the Clergy. And cap. 28. Sisinnius sent Proclus to be Bishop of Cyzi•um; but the People chose Dalmatius and refused him.] And this custom of the People's Choice, must needs rise at first from hence, that the whole Church being but one Congregation was present: For what Right can any one Church in a Diocess have to chuse a Bishop for all the rest, any more than the many hundred that are far off, and uncapable to chuse?