A27050:1423
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.
IV. And where there is not the same Relate and Correlate, there is not the same Relation. But a Parochial Church and Pastor, and a Diocesan Church and Pastor, are not the same Relate and Correlate. Ergo.
IV. And where there is not the same Relate and Correlate, there is not the same Relation. But a Parochial Church and Pastor, and a Diocesane Church and Pastor, are not the same Relate and Correlate. Ergo.
If they be, let them become Parochial Bishops and be still the same. But what I have said of the difference of Ends and Foundations proveth this; a Combination of Christians into one Church primi ordinis for personal Communion, is not the same with a Combination of Congregations for Communion mental or by delegates only. And so of the Bishops of these several Churches.
V. If a Congregational Church or Pastor be of the same species with our Diocesan Churches and Prelates, then a Church that extendeth through all the Kingdom, yea to many Kingdoms, yea to the East and West Indies or Antipodes may be of the same species also (and so its Pastor.) And so the Pope and his Church may be of the same, (as to the magnitude) But the consequent is false: Ergo, so is the antecedent.
V. If a Congregational Church or Pastor be of the same species with our Diocesane Churches and Prelates, then a Church that extendeth through all the Kingdom, yea to many Kingdoms, yea to the East and West Indies or Antipodes may be of the same species also (and so its Pastor.) And so the Pope and his Church may be of the same, (as to the magnitude) But the consequent is false: Ergo, so is the antecedent.