A27050:1489
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.
Even here Can. 22. it's said [Episcopus sine Concilio Clerioorum suorum Clericos1 non ordinet: Ita ut Civium assensum & conniventiam & testimonium quaerat.] And if not sine concilio * then not contra consilium. And if the consent of the Laity be necessary, sure the Clergies is so too.
- 1Note it is not consilio but concilio.
Can. 29. Episcopus si Clerico vel Laico crimen imposuerit, deducatur ad probationem in Synodum. Can. 30. Caveant Judices Ecclesiae ne absent eo cujus causa ventilatur sententiam proferant; quia irrita erit, imo & causam in Synodo profacto dabunt. And if a Bishop must not so much as accuse but in a Synod on proof, much less might he be judge alone.
Can. 29. Episcopus si Clerico vel Laico crimen imposuerit, deducatur ad probationem in Synodum. Can. 30. Caveant Judices Ecclesiae ne absente eo cujus causa ventilatur sententiam proferant; quia irrita erit, imo & causam in Synodo profacto dabunt. And if a Bishop must not so much as accuse but in a Synod on proof, much lefs might he be judge alone.
Can. 33. appointeth that Bishops or Presbyters shall be invited to preach, and consecrate the Oblation, when they come into strange Churches] So for there was no difference.