A27050:197
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.
13. Their Commission and Office was, 1. to Teach men and make them Christians (or Christ's Disciples,) 2. and then to Baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and so to take them into his Covenant and Church; and, 3. to Teach them as Covenanted and en-Churched persons, to observe all his commands; The first part of their work was to be exercised unlimitedly on all the World, as far as they were able; The second part on the new Converted Believers (and their infant seed;) And the third part on the Baptized (that were adult.) And he added the promise of his presence with them to the end.
14. As he now enlarged their Commission to All the World as the object of the first part of their Office; so he added one (Paul) by a voice from Heaven, unto the number of the Apostles, who was especially made an Apostle to the Gentiles, to show the rest that they were no more confined to the twelve Tribes of Israel.
14. As he now enlarged their Commission to All the World as the object of the first part of their Office; so he added one (Paul) by a voice from Heaven, unto the number of the Apostles, who was especially made an Apostle to the Gentiles, to shew the rest that they were no more confined to the twelve Tribes of Israel.
15. Because these Apostles were entrusted not only with a common Preaching of the Gospel, but as Founders of the Churches, to be the eye and ear witnesses, of the life, miracles, resurrection and doctrine of Christ, and to acquaint men certainly with the Laws of Christ, therefore he promised them the extraordinary gift of the Holy Ghost, to lead them infallibly into all truth, and to bring all things to their remembrance, which he had taught and given them in Charge, and so to enable them to perform all their Commission, which he gave them accordingly, and so made them the Foundations of his Church, and the infallible deliverers