A27050:352
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.
I will shorten my Answer to the rest of his Reasonings for such Diocesan Churches.
I will put a few Questions, more pertinent than his Queries p. 67. about the state of such Diocesan Churches.
Q. 1. Whether the Apostles were not, by this description, Bishops of all the World as their Dioceses? And whether therefore it follow that there were no Bishops under them in particular Churches?
Q. 1. Whether the Apostles were not, by this description, Bishops of all the World as their Diocesses? And whether therefore it follow that there were no Bishops under them in particular Churches?
Q. 2. Whether Apostles and Evangelists did not go from City to City, sometime staying some Months or Years at one, and then passing to another? And whether this made all the interjacent Countries their Dioceses, changing their Bishops as oft as they thus changed their Habitations?
Q. 2. Whether Apostles and Evangelists did not go from City to City, sometime staying some Months or Years at one, and then passing to another? And whether this made all the interjacent Countries their Diocesses, changing their Bishops as oft as they thus changed their Habitations?