A27050:1456
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.
That God instituted such Presbyters and no other, I shall prove by the enumeration and perusal of all the Texts of Scripture which mention them, (viz. as instituted in the New Testament, and now in force.)
THat God instituted such Presbyters and no other, I shall prove by the enumeration and perusal of all the Texts of Scripture which mention them, (viz. as instituted in the New Testament, and now in force.)
Act. 14. 23. When they had Ordained them Elders in every Church—Compared with Tit. 1. 5. That thou shouldest Ordain Elders in every City, as I had appointed thee—7. For a Bishop must be blameless as the steward of God. And his power is described v. 11, 13. Ch. 2. 1, 7, 15. and 3. 10. intimate it. Compare this with 1 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 5, 6.
1 Tim. 5. 17. Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the Word and Doctrine: compared with 1 Cor. 9. 14. Gal. 6. 6. which show that preaching the Gospel was their work, as well as Ruling the Churches under them, as 1 Cor. 12. 28.