A27050:1482
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.
The same he hath again Ep. 12. p. 37. (with an examinabuntur singula praesentibus & judicantibus vobis (that is, the people, to show how great the Church was.)
The same he hath again Ep. 12. p. 37. (with an examinabuntur singula praesentibus & judicantibus vobis (that is, the people, to shew how great the Church was.)
Afterward Ep. 14. he directeth the Presbyters to absolve those by Imposition of hands themselves without him that are infirm and in danger, but that the rest must be publicly reconciled in the Church praesente & stantium plebe. To recite all of this nature in Cyprian, would be too long.
Afterward Ep. 14. he directeth the Presbyters to absolve those by Imposition of hands themselves without him that are infirm and in danger, but that the rest must be publickly reconciled in the Church praesente & stantium plebe. To recite all of this nature in Cyprian, would be too long.
VI. I will add next a General Testimony viz. the constant custom of all Churches, even Rome it self, where the Presbyters have Governed without a Bishop in the intervals, when after one Bishops death another was not chosen. As before the choice of Fabian's successor you may see by the Epistles of the Roman Clergy to Cyprian. Marcion was expelled by the Roman Presbytes ⟨p. 108⟩seed vacant, Epiphan. Haeres. 42. And if they had the power over one another, more over the flock.
VI. I will add next a General Testimony viz. the constant custome of all Churches, even Rome it self, where the Presbyters have Governed without a Bishop in the intervals, when after one Bishops death another was not chosen. As before the choice of Fabian's successor you may see by the Epistles of the Roman Clergy to Cyprian. Marcion was expelled by the Roman Presbytes