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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.
Which Polyd. Virgil secondeth c. 6. yea the Bishops durst scarce be seen in the streets so hot were the persecutions, as Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 31. Therefore, as I before noted, they had yet no capacious Temples, as Illyricus well gathereth, Catalogue. Testi. verit. p. 112. But they began to have days of peace and liberty under Alexand. Severus, Gordian. Philip, Galienus, Flavius, Claudius, Aurelianus, Probus, and then they did enlarge their too small rooms, to that described by Euseb. lib. 8. c. 1.
Which Polyd. Virgil secondeth c. 6. yea the Bishops durst scarce be seen in the streets so hot were the persecutions, as Euseb. lib. 6. cap. 31. Therefore, as I before noted, they had yet no capacious Temples, as Illyricus well gathereth, Catalog. Testi. verit. p. 112. But they began to have days of peace and liberty under Alexand. Severus, Gordian. Philip, Galienus, Flavius, Claudius, Aurelianus, Probus, and then they did enlarge their too small rooms, to that described by Euseb. lib. 8. c. 1.
XXVI. Another evidence is, that Monasteries were built before Chapels and Country Parish Churches, and far more numerous, so that we frequently read of Monasteries under a Bishop with their Abbot, or Presbyter, when we read little or nothing of Parish Churches in the Countries under him. And if these had been as common, why are they not as much mentioned in the ancient records of the Church? The Egyptian Monks, and those in Judea, and those in Britain, in Bede, and the life of Hierome, Fulgentius, and abundance such witness this.
XXVI. Another evidence is, that Monasteries were built before Chappels and Countrey Parish Churches, and far more numerous, so that we frequently read of Monasteries under a Bishop with their Abbot, or Presbyter, when we read little or nothing of Parish Churches in the Countries under him. And if these had been as common, why are they not as much mentioned in the ancient records of the Church? The Egyptian Monks, and those in Judaea, and those in Britain, in Beda, and the life of Hierome, Fulgentius, and abundance such witness this.