A27050:313
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.
And that these new Bishoprics must be by the old Bishops consent, is apparently a point of Order to avoid inconveniences (if not of Usurpation:) For what power had the old Bishop to keep any Church of Christ without a Bishop of their own, when it was for there good?
And that these new Bishopricks must be by the old Bishops consent, is apparently a point of Order to avoid inconveniences (if not of Usurpation:) For what power had the old Bishop to keep any Church of Christ without a Bishop of their own, when it was for there good?
That he hath some countenance from Leo, for the New Church-Form (without Bishops) I wonder not, when Leo was one of the hottest that betimes maintained the Roman Primacy, if not Universal Sovereignty.
That he hath some countenance from Leo, for the New Church-Form (without Bishops) I wonder not, when Leo was one of the hottest that betimes maintained the Roman Primacy, if not Universal Soveraignty.
And as the Care against placing Bishops in small places, ne vilescat nomen Episcopi, came in late, so 1. It intimateth that it was otherwise done, at least by some before, 2. And it is but the Prelatical grandeur which Constantine had puffed up, which is then alleged as the Reason of this Restraint.
And as the Care against placing Bishops in small places, ne vilescat nomen Episcopi, came in late, so 1. It intimateth that it was otherwise done, at least by some before, 2. And it is but the Prelatical grandure which Constantine had pufft up, which is then alledged as the Reason of this Restraint.