A27050:219
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.
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.
35. Yet do we not hold that all true Churches do Assemble together in one place; or that they consist of no more than can meet at once: For whole Families seldom go all at once to the Assembly: Therefore if one part go to day, and another the next day, they worship God publicly in personal Communion, though not all at the same time. 2. And many may be sick, and many infants, and many aged, and the great distance of some may make a Chapel or subordinate Meeting often needful. And yet, 1. they may all come together in one place at several times for Church communion. 2. And they may live so near, that one may be capable of neighbourly converse with others, and of admonishing, exhorting and encouraging each other, in their Christian Course.
35. Yet do we not hold that all true Churches do Assemble together in one place; or that they consist of no more than can meet at once: For whole Families seldom go all at once to the Assembly: Therefore if one part go to day, and another the next day, they worship God publickly in personal Communion, though not all at the same time. 2. And many may be sick, and many infants, and many aged, and the great distance of some may make a Chapel or subordinate Meeting often needful. And yet, 1. they may all come together in one place at several times for Church communion. 2. And they may live so near, that one may be capable of neighbourly converse with others, and of admonishing, exhorting and encouraging each other, in their Christian Course.