A27050:1463
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.
1 •im. 4. 14. Neglect not the gift which is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery—
1 Pet. 5. 1. The Elders which are among you •exhort, who also am an Elder;—Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight (or Episcopacy) thereof, not by constraint but willingly—Neither as being Lords over Gods heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear—
2 Joh. 1. The Elder to the Elect Lady—
Whether those Texts, 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder. v. 19. Receive not an accusation against an Elder] speak of an Elder by Office or by Age, is uncertain; if it be by Office, the other Texts describe them.