A27050:1281
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 7: More Proofs of the aforesaid Limits of Churches.
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.
2. And certainly when Temples were first named Churches, it was not because those met there that were no Churches, but only Members of Churches: Nor is this Parish Church called a Church because some meet here that belong to the Church at Boston, Lincoln or Grantham; But to this day we cannot disuse our selves from saying, the Church of Barnet, the Church of St. Albans, of Hatfield, &c. yea, in the same City, we denominate the several Temples still several Churches.
2. And certainly when Temples were first named Churches, it was not because those met there that were no Churches, but only Members of Churches: Nor is this Parish Church called a Church because some meet here that belong to the Church at Boston, Lincoln or Grantham; But to this day we cannot disuse our selves from saying, the Church of Barnet, the Church of St. Albans, of Hat•ield, &c. yea, in the same City, we denominate the several Temples still several Churches.
Hesychius explaineth Ecclesia, by no other words than these three, [Greek or Hebrew], which all signify the Meetings of the People, and not Men that never see each other, only because one Man ruleth them.
Hesychius explaineth Ecclesia, by no other words than these three, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which all signifie the Meetings of the People, and not Men that never see each other, only because one Man ruleth them.
Mr. Mede in his Exercitat. of Temples proveth largely that the places of Meeting are ordinarily by the Ancients called Churches, even in several Centuries. Euseb. lib. 8. cap. 1. saith, in every City they built spacious and ample Churches. And Theophil. Antiochen. Autol. saith, [Sic Deus dedit mundo, qui peccatorum tempestatibus & naufragiis jactatur, Synagogas, quas Ecclesias sanctas nominamus, in quibus veritatis doctrina fervet, ad quas confugiunt veritatis studiosi, quotquot salvari, Deique judicium & iram evitare volunt.]