A27050:1436
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.
II. The word [Form] signifieth either the essentials of Church policy, or the Integrals, or accidents which Christ himself hath settled: Or else it signifieth only some mutable accidents or modes, which God hath left to humane prudence. Of the first we deny mans power to change them. Of the later we grant it.1
II. The word [Form] signifieth either the essentials of Church policy, or the Integrals, or accidents which Christ himself hath setled: Or else it signifieth only some mutable accidents or modes, which God hath left to humane prudence. Of the first we deny mans power to change them. Of the later we grant it.1
- 1Act. 2. 1. 42, 44, 46. Heb. 10. 22, &c & 13. 7, 17, 24. Act. 14. 23. & Act. 20. 1 Thes. 5. 12, 13. 1 Cor. 5. & 14. per tot.
1. It is undeniably of Divine institution that there be ordinary public Assemblies for Gods solemn worship, and the peoples edification. 2. And that Ministers of that office which Christ hath instituted, be the officiating Guides in these Assemblies. 3. And that Cohabiting Christians be the ordinary stated bodies of these assemblies, and not live loosely to go every day as they please from Church to Church, but ordinarily when they can, be settled members of some one Church (To which cohabitation or vicinity, is one dispositio materiae) 4. And that each of these Churches have their proper fixed Pastors, and should not take up with unfixed various passing Ministers, unless in cases of necessary