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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.
XXVIII. Another evidence is that Presbyters or Bishops were not to remove from the Places they were Ordained in: But those places of old were single Churches; (usually in Cities with the suburbs that could come to the same Church, as Dr. Field saith.) Concil. Arelat. 1. cited by Spelman, pag. 40.1 (because we had 3 British Bishops there) [In quibuscunque locis ordinati fuerint Ministri, in ipsis locis perseverent] And ipse locus was not a circuit of 40 or 50 or 100 miles long, but the Bishops Parish or Vicinity. Of the Bishops not removing (without a Synod) many Councils speak.
XXVIII. Another evidence is that Presbyters or Bishops were not to remove from the Places they were Ordained in: But those places of old were single Churches; (usually in Cities with the suburbs that could come to the same Church, as Dr. Field saith.) Concil. Arelat. 1. cited by Spelman, pag. 40.1 (because we had 3 Brittish Bishops there) [In quibuscunque locis ordinati fuerint Ministri, in ipsis locis perseverent] And ipse locus was not a circuit of 40 or 50 or 100 miles long, but the Bishops Parish or Vicinity. Of the Bishops not removing (without a Synod) many Councils speak.
- 1Concil. Arelat. 1. c. 21.
XXIX. Another evidence is that the Canons which take down the Chorepiscopi and turn them to periodeutae Visitors, or Itinerants, and which forbid the1 making of Bishops in small Cities, or villages, 1. Were of late date, 2. And were in aspiring times, and had a reason answerable, ne vilescat nomen Episcopi; 3. And therefore intimate that it was otherwise before (as I have before showed.)
XXIX. Another evidence is that the Canons which take down the Chorepiscopi and turn them to periodeutae Visitors, or Itinerants, and which forbid the