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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.
2. And when as one part of his Adversaries deny not (at least) the Lawfulness of one Bishops superiority in a single Church, as far as his description speaketh, but only in many Churches; no, nor one Archbishops power over many Churches that have their own Bishops, but only his power to depose all the Bishops of particular Churches and turn them all into one Diocesan Church; his Definition visibly reacheth to no other sort of Bishops, but such as we oppose not; and so he saith nothing at all against us, to any purpose through all his Book: For where after he confidently tells us that the extent of his Jurisdiction alters not ⟨p. 49⟩the Species, it is but barely said, and by his leave I shall fully prove the contrary anon. And pag. 4. l. 7. He confesseth that de facto. [Many things are in the state of Bishops, which the times have changed, Many a Parsonage at this day is larger than some ancient Bishoprics were.] It's well confessed: And I shall try among other things, whether the Name of a Bishopric will make a Parsonage and a Diocese to be ejusdem speciei, and whether magnitude do not make a specific difference, between the Sea and a Rivulet or a glass of water, or between a Ship and a Nut-shell.
2. And when as one part of his Adversaries deny not (at least) the Lawfulness of one Bishops superiority in a single Church, as far as his description speaketh, but only in many Churches; no, nor one Archbishops power over many Churches that have their own Bishops, but only his power to depose all the Bishops of particular Churches and turn them all into one Diocesan Church; his Definition visibly reacheth to no other sort of Bishops, but such as we oppose not; and so he saith nothing at all against us, to any purpose through all his Book: For where after he confidently tells us that the extent of his Jurisdiction alters not ⟨p. 49⟩the Species, it is but barely said, and by his leave I shall fully prove the contrary anon. And pag. 4. l. 7. He confesseth that de facto. [Many things are in the state of Bishops, which the times have changed, Many a Parsonage at this day is larger than some ancient Bishopricks were.] It's well confest: And I shall try among other things, whether the Name of a Bishoprick will make a Parsonage and a Diocess to be ejusdem speciei, and whether magnitude do not make a specifick difference, between the Sea and a Rivulet or a glass of water, or between a Ship and a Nut-shel.