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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.
1. If any man can by an harangue of words be brought to renounce his reason and experience, so far as to believe that the Office of a Pastor may be performed to as many Parishes, as the Office of a Major or Justice of Peace may, and that Pastors have no more to do in watching over particular Souls, instructing, exhorting, convincing, comforting, visiting, worshipping, Governing, &c, than the works of a Justice of Peace amount to, and that Dr. Stillingfleet (e. g.) shall be excused if he do no more for his Parish, than Justice Rog. L'Estrange doth, I undertake not to convince that man of any thing. Read over the work of a Bishop as I have here described it from the Scripture and Dr. Hamond and compare it with a Justices work, and if you can yet be deceived by Mr. Dodwel be deceived.
1. If any man canby an harrangue of words be brought to renounce his reason and experience, so far as to believe that the Office of a Pastor may be performed to as many Parishes, as the Office of a Major or Justice of Peace may, and that Pastors have no more to do in watching over particular Souls, instructing, exhorting, convincing, comforting, visiting, worpshing, Governing, &c, than the works of a Justice of Peace amount to, and that Dr. Stillingfleet (e. g.) shall be excused if he do no more for his Parish, than Justice Rog. L'Estrange doth, I undertake not to convince that man of any thing. Read over the work of a Bishop as I have here discribed it from the Scripture and Dr. Hamond and compare it with a Justices work, and if you can yet be deceived by Mr. Dodwel be deceived.
And yet I think there are in divers Parishes about us many Justices for one Pastor: I am confident London Diocese hath a great number for one Bishop.
And yet I think there are in divers Parishes about us many Justices for one Pastor: I am confident London Diocess hath a great number for one Bishop.