A27050:35
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.
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.
10. We refuse not that one in every such Synod be the moderator; and if as of old every City ([Greek or Hebrew]) or Corporation had a Bishop, so if but every Corporation or market Town, or every circuit that hath as many Communican•• as ⟨image 6⟩can know one another by neighbourhood and some conversation and sometimes assembling (like a great Parish with many Chapels) had but so much power as is essential to a true particular Pastor and Church; yea or but the power that a free Tutor, Philosopher or Physician hath, to manage his office by his skill, and not as an Apothecary or mere executor of a strangers dictates, we should quietly submit.
10. We refuse not that one in every such Synod be the moderator; and if as of old every City (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) or Corporation had a Bishop, so if but every Corporation or market Town, or every circuit that hath as many Communican•• as ⟨image 6⟩can know one another by neighbourhood and some conversation and sometimes assembling (like a great Parish with many Chappels) had but so much power as is essential to a true particular Pastor and Church; yea or but the power that a free Tutor, Philosopher or Physician hath, to manage his office by his skill, and not as an Apothecary or meer executor of a strangers dictates, we should quietly submit.