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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.
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.
His Argument is, [That which was judged unlawful by the Canons of approved Councils, and Decrees of Godly Bishops, was never lawfully, regularly and ordinarily practised: But, &c. I deny the Major. Kneeling at Prayer or Sacrament on the Lords day, the Marriage of Priests, the Reading of the Heathens Writings, and abundance such-like, were forbidden by such approved Councils; especially a multitude of things depending on the new ⟨p. 58⟩Imperial shape of the Churches, which are now lawful, and were lawful, and ordinarily practised before: Paul Kneeled and Prayed on the Lord's day,