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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.
5. Bishop Downame hath said much more to the main Points, in the defence1 of his Consecration Sermon, and as much as I can expect to find in any. But, 1. as to the mode he is so contrary to Hooker, that (being a very expert Logician) he wasteth so much of his Book about the Forms of Arguments and Answers, that he obscureth the matter by it, and ensnareth2 those Readers, who do not carefully distinguish between Matter and Words, and between the force of the reason, and the form of a Syllogism. And he so adorneth (or defileth) his Style with taunts, insulting scorns, and contemptuous reproaches, that it is more suitable to the Scold sat Billings-gate than so learned and godly a Divine, and occasioneth his Adversaries to say, You have here a taste of the Prelatical Spirit.
5. Bishop Downame hath said much more to the main Points, in the defence1 of his Consecration Sermon, and as much as I can expect to find in any. But, 1. as to the mode he is so contrary to Hooker, that (being a very expert Logician) he wasteth so much of his Book about the Forms of Arguments and Answers, that he obscureth the matter by it, and ensnareth2 those Readers, who do not carefully distinguish between Matter and Words, and between the force of the reason, and the form of a Syllogism. And he so adorneth (or defileth) his Style with taunts, insulting scorns, and contemptuous reproaches, that it is more sutable to the Scold sat Billings-gate than so learned and godly a Divine, and occasioneth his Adversaries to say, You have here a taste of the Prelatical Spirit.
- 1Bishop Downame Answered.
- 2He fell after under the frowns of Bishop Laud himself, his Book of perseverance being prohibited.