A27050:1372
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.
Again it must be remembered that many Natural Relations are so founded in an act past, that the Relation resulteth from it without depending on any thing future. As God is Creator quia jam creavit, Pater est qui genuit. But there are other Relations which are founded in mere Undertaking, Mandate authority, and obligation to future actions: As he is a Tutor, a Schoolmaster, a Judge, a Chancellor, a Pilot, a Bishop, a Husband, &c. who by mandate and undertaking is authorized and obliged to such and such works, implied in the names. And in these cases, there is nothing more specifieth the offices than the work of the office, which is, its nearest End. And these nearest ends are ever essential to such Relations; whether you will call them the Termini or End, or by what other name, we contend not.
Again it must be remembred that many Natural Relations are so founded in an act past, that the Relation resulteth from it without depending on any thing future. As God is Creator quia jam creavit, Pater est qui genuit. But there are other Relations which are founded in meer Undertaking, Mandate authority, and obligation to future actions: As he is a Tutor, a Schoolmaster, a Judge, a Chancellor, a Pilot, a Bishop, a Husband, &c. who by mandate and undertaking is authorized and obliged to such and such works, implyed in the names. And in these cases, there is nothing more specifieth the offices than the work of the office, which is, its nearest End. And these nearest ends are ever essential to such Relations; whether you will call them the T•rmini or End, or by what other name, we contend not.
And therefore Aquinas and all, 1. 2. q. 18. art. 2. and others commonly agree, that the Object and the End do specify humane acts.
And therefore Aquinas and all, 1. 2. q. 18. art. 2. and others commonly agree, that the Object and the End do specifie humane acts.