A27050:1468
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.
CHAP. XIII. The same confirmed by the Ancients.
AS for Humane testimony, the heap is so great brought in by Dav. Blondel, that I have the less mind to say any more of it; But shall only (besides all that is said before on the by) recite a few of those testimonies which most convinced my own understanding in the reading of them in the Authors themselves, leaving others to take what they see best out of Blondels store.
AS for Humane testimony, the heap is so great brought in by Dav. Blondel, that I have the less mind to say any more of it; But shall only (besides all that is said before on the by) recite a few of those testimones which most convinced my own understanding in the reading of them in the Authors themselves, leaving others to take what they see best out of Blondels store.
I. I know that somewhat may be said against what I shall first cite, but I think not of sufficient force. I begin with it, though not first in time, because first in Authority. The 1. Concil. Nicaen. in their Epistle to the Church of Alexand. and all the Churches of Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis, thus decree concerning those that were Ordained by Meletius, (as Socrat. lib. 1. c. 6. translated by Grynaeus) Hi autem qui Dei gratia & vestris precibus adjuti ad nullum ⟨p. 105⟩