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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.
7. And we would have that Parish Pastor to have no power to hinder any other Minister from giving any one the Sacrament whom he denieth it to, or that refuseth it from him: Though he that for a common cause is cast out of our Church, should not be received by others, till he repenteth, yet that holds not in all private causes, between the particular Pastor and him; nor in case of unjust excommunication: And other Ministers must judge of their own actions, whom to receive; and an injuring Minister may not hinder any other, nor the injured person from communicating elsewhere.
7. And we would have that Parish Pastor to have no power to hinder any other Minister from giving any one the Sacrament whom he denyeth it to, or that refuseth it from him: Though he that for a common cause is cast out of our Church, should not be received by others, till he repenteth, yet that holds not in all private causes, between the particular Pastor and him; nor in case of unjust excommunication: And other Ministers must judge of their own actions, whom to receive; and an injuring Minister may not hinder any other, nor the injured person from communicating elsewhere.
8. And we would have Parish Churches be as large as personal communion doth require or allow, and every Church to have divers Ministers; and if one be chief or Bishop, and the rest assistants, and if three or four small Parishes make one such communicating Church, we resist not.
9. And we desire frequent meeting or Synods of neighbour Pastors; and that there every single Pastor be ready to give an account of his Ministry, and to answer any thing that shall be alleged against him: And that the vote of the Synod obligeth all against unnecessary singularity.
9. And we desire frequent meeting or Synods of neighbour Pastors; and that there every single Pastor be ready to give an account of his Ministry, and to answer any thing that shall be alledged against him: And that the vote of the Synod obligeth all against unnecessary singularity.