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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.
42. Churches headed by such a new sort of Officers, specifically distinct from the old of Christ's Institution, are Churches specifically differing from the Churches which Christ Instituted: Because the Society is specified by the species of its Head or Governor.
42. Churches headed by such a new sort of Officers, specifically distinct from the old of Christ's Institution, are Churches specifically differing from the Churches which Christ Instituted: Because the Society is specified by the species of its Head or Governour.
43. To make a new sort of Church-Heads or Rulers, as their Constitutive parts, is to make a new sort of Churches.
44. The three foresaid Essential parts of the Pastoral Office are not to be exercised by any Lay-man, nor by any man that hath not that Office: Nor may the Pastors do that work per alios, or delegate Lay-men, or men of another Office to do it as in their stead. For the Office is nothing but just Authority and Obligation to do that work: And if they convey such Authority and Obligation to another, they convey the Office to another; And so he is no longer a Lay-man, or of another Office only.
44. The three forsaid Essential parts of the Pastoral Office are not to be exercised by any Lay-man, nor by any man that hath not that Office: Nor may the Pastors do that work per alios, or delegate Lay-men, or men of another Office to do it as in their stead. For the Office is nothing but just Authority and Obligation to do that work: And if they convey such Authority and Obligation to another, they convey the Office to another; And so he is no longer a Lay-man, or of another Office only.