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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 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.
And Augustine cont. Gaudentium saith, there were innumerable Bishops in Africa that were Orthodox. (And it was but a corner of Africa that were Christians, and in the Roman Empire here meant.)
Victor Uticensis in persecut. Vandal. showeth that in that part of Africa 660 Bishops fled; besides the great number murdered, imprisoned, and many tolerated. The like may be said of Patricks Irish Bishops before mentioned, and many others, who plainly were Parochial Bishops.
Victor Uticensis in persecut. Vandal. sheweth that in that part of Africa 660 Bishops fled; besides the great number murdered, imprisoned, and many tolerated. The like may be said of Patricks Irish Bishops before mentioned, and many others, who plainly were Parochial Bishops.
XI. Another evidence is, The way of Strangers communicating then by way of Communicatory Letters, or Certificates from the Church whence they came, which were to be showed to the Bishop of the Church where they desired to communicate: But was it many hundred Churches that they must thus satisfy? or must they travail to the Bishop with their Certificate, before they must communicate in any one Church within 20. 30. 40. ⟨p. 71⟩or 50. miles of him? Doubtless an impartial Reader will think, that it was but a Bishop of the same City-Church which he desired Communion with, to whom the Certificate was to be shown. See what Albaspinaeus saith of these Letters, ex Concil. Laodic. c. 41. Concil. Antioch. c. 1. Concil. Agath. can. 52. Concil. Eliber. c. 58. in his observat. p. 254, 255.
XI. Another evidence is, The way of Strangers communicating then by way of Communicatory Letters, or Certificates from the Church whence they came, which were to be shewed to the Bishop of the Church where they desired to communicate: But was it many hundred Churches that they must thus satisfie? or must they travail to the Bishop with their Certificate, before they must communicate in any one Church within 20. 30. 40.