A27050:217
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.
32. Deacons are subordinate Officers, or Ministers to Christs Ministers, not essential to the Church, but only Integral, as needful to its well being, in such Churches, where the number and benefit of the People do require them.
33. The necessity of these Individual or particular Churches, is founded, in the necessity of the foresaid public worshipping of God, and in the use of the mutual assistance of Christian Neighbours in the matters of salvation, and in the need of the personal inspection and conduct of the Pastors over all the Flock.
33. The necessity of these Individual or particular Churches, is founded, in the necessity of the foresaid publick worshiping of God, and in the use of the mutual assistance of Christian Neighbours in the matters of salvation, and in the need of the personal inspection and conduct of the Pastors over all the Flock.
34. The difference between this personal Communion, and the distant Communion by Letters or Delegates, or merely internal in Faith and Love, is so great and notorious, as must make those Societies specifically distinct, which are associated for such distinct Ends.
34. The difference between this personal Communion, and the distant Communion by Letters or Delegates, or meerly internal in Faith and Love, is so great and notorious, as must make those Societies specifically distinct, which are associated for such distinct Ends.