A27050:160
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.
I know that Duarenus and Grotius describe not the Bishops power as so large as the Canonists do. But Duarenus confesseth that Theodosius made a Law, that lites omnes & controversiae forenses ad judicium Ecclesiae remitterentur, si alter utter litigatorum id postularet. That all strifes and controversies forensic should be remitted to the judgment of the Church, if either of the contenders required it: And that Charles the Great renewed and confirmed the same Law: Duar. lib. 1. p. 8. And Grotius de Imper. sum pol. p. 236. saith, This Jurisdiction by consent the Bishops received from Constantine, with so great power, that it was not lawful further to handle any business which the Bishops sentence had decided; that is, saith he, remotâ appellation. And he there showeth that three sorts of Jurisdiction were by the Emperors given to the Bishops: 1. Jure ordinario, and so they judged of all matters of Religion (and which the Canons reached, which went very far in heinous crimes.) 2. Ex▪ consensu p•rtium, when the parties chose the Bishop for their Judge (Vid. Concil. Chalced. c. 9.) 3. Ex delegatione: which yet went further: And even to the Jews such kind of power had been granted.
I know that Duarenus and Grotius describe not the Bishops power as so large as the Canonists do. But Duarenus confesseth that Theodosius made a Law, that lites omnes & controversiae forenses ad judicium Ecclesiae remitterentur, si alter uter litigatorum id postularet. That all strifes and controversies forensick should be remitted to the judgment of the Church, if either of the contenders required it: And that Charles the Great renewed and confirmed the same Law: Duar. lib. 1. p. 8. And Grotius de Imper. sum pol. p. 236. saith, This Jurisdiction by consent the Bishops received from Constantine, with so great power, that it was not lawful further to handle any business which the Bishops sentence had decided; that is, saith he, remotâ appellatione. And he there sheweth that three sorts of Jurisdiction were by the Emperours given to the Bishops: 1. Jure ordinario, and so they judged of all matters of Religion (and which the Canons reached, which went very far in heinous crimes.) 2. Ex▪ consensu p•rtium, when the parties chose the Bishop for their Judge (Vid. Concil. Chalced. c. 9.) 3. Ex delegatione: which yet went further: And even to the Jews such kind of power had been granted.