A27050:338
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.
Particularly, he saith, The Church of Ephesus, Smyrna, &c. Contained a great City, and the Country belonging to it, &c.
Ans. We talk of Churches under Churches, and he talketh only of Cities and Countries; Again, I say, Let him take his Diocese of Infidels, Houses and Ground, we know no such Churches.
Ans. We talk of Churches under Churches, and he talketh only of Cities and Countries; Again, I say, Let him take his Diocess of Infidels, Houses and Ground, we know no such Churches.
Page 46. He saith [Cenchrea was subject to the Church of Corinth, and never had a Bishop of their own.] But not a syllable of proof: It is not a Family Church, which we speak of, therefore he need not here have mentioned that: But a Church associated for ordinary Communion in God's public worship, which cannot be celebrated without a Pastor. Let him prove that Cenchrea was such a Church and yet had no Bishop.
Page 46. He saith [Cenchrea was subject to the Church of Corinth, and never had a Bishop of their own.] But not a syllable of proof: It is not a Family Church, which we speak of, therefore he need not here have mentioned that: But a Church associated for ordinary Communion in God's publick worship, which cannot be celebrated without a Pastor. Let him prove that Cenchrea was such a Church and yet had no Bishop.