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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
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.
CHAP. IX. The second Argument: from the Deposition of the primitive species of Bishops, and the erecting of a humane inconsistent species in their stead: A specific difference proved.
CHAP. IX. The second Argument: from the Deposition of the primitive species of Bishops, and the erecting of a humane inconsistent species in their stead: A specifick difference proved.
ARGUMENT II.
A Humane inconsistent species of Bishops erected instead of the Divinely instituted species thereby deposed, is unlawful. But such is the Diocesan species now opposed—Ergo.
A Humane inconsistent species of Bishops erected instead of the Divinelyinstituted species thereby deposed, is unlawful. But such is the Diocesan species now opposed—Ergo.
I have hitherto charged it with the changing of the Church Form: Now of the form or species of Bishops. And here I need not add much to the former, because they are coincident, and in proving the one I have already proved the other.