A27050:330
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.
His third Reason is from the Chorepiscopi, as the Bishops suffragan, which showeth no more, but that the City Bishops (whether justly or by usurpation) were at last really Archbishops, or Rulers of Bishops: But of this before.
His third Reason is from the Chorepiscopi, as the Bishops suffragan, which sheweth no more, but that the City Bishops (whether justly or by usurpation) were at last really Archbishops, or Rulers of Bishops: But of this before.
His fourth Reason, from Succession will be good, when he that affirmeth that no Church was governed by the Parish Discipline, hath proved that all, many, yea, or any Bishops from the Apostles days, had many Churches under them that had no Bishops of their own. Till then he saith nothing.
As to his instance of the Scythians having but one Bishop, the Reason was, because it was but little of their Country at first that were made Christians, or that were at all in the Roman Empire: So that the Bishop was settled at Tomis, in the borders of the Empire (in the Maritime part of the Euxine Sea,) that thence he might have an influence on the rest of the Scythians over whom the Romans had no power, and where there were many Cities indeed, but few Christians: as may be seen in Theodoret, Tripart. Nicephor. and many others. Of his other three or four instances, I shall after speak.
As to his instance of the Scythians having but one Bishop, the Reason was, because it was but little of their Country at first that were made Christians, or that were at all in the Roman Empire: So that the Bishop was setled at Tomis, in the borders of the Empire (in the Maritine part of the Euxine Sea,) that thence he might have an influence on the rest of the Scythians over whom the Romans had no power, and where there were many Cities indeed, but few Christians: as may be seen in Theodoret, Tripart. Nicephor. and many others. Of his other three or four instances, I shall after speak.