A27050:356
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.
Q. 3. Whether more than one such Apostle or Evangelist were not both at once, and successively in the same place, to labour the conversion of all they could? And whether therefore there were many Bishops to a Diocese?
Q. 3. Whether more than one such Apostle or Evangelist were not both at once, and successively in the same place, to labour the conversion of all they could? And whether therefore there were many Bishops to a Diocess?
Q. 4. Where we shall find the proof that the Apostles or Evangelists set the bounds of Dioceses? And whether this description of his own do make Dioceses bounded by circuit or space of Ground, or by the Abilities of the Bishop to endeavour conversion?
Q. 4. Where we shall find the proof that the Apostles or Evangelists set the bounds of Diocesses? And whether this description of his own do make Diocesses bounded by circuit or space of Ground, or by the Abilities of the Bishop to endeavour conversion?
Q. 5. When the Apostles forbade any other to labour mens conversion in their Cities or Countries where they or others had been before them? And did not one plant and another water, (and usually more than one at once?)
Q. 5. When the Apostles forbad any other to labour mens conversion in their Cities or Countries where they or others had been before them? And did not one plant and another water, (and usually more than one at once?)