A27050:358
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. 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?)
Q. 6. Whether (Mat. 28. 19, 20.) Discipling or Preaching to convert men, and then baptizing them, be not the way of gathering Churches, and therefore proveth that before conversion they are no Churches? and are not Christians only members of the Church? And are those Diocesan Churches that are no Churches?
Q. 7. If one be settled in a single Congregation in the City, with a purpose to endeavour the conversion of the Country, is not a Diocesan Church there the same as a single Congregation, though the Diocese be larger?
Q. 7. If one be setled in a single Congregation in the City, with a purpose to endeavour the conversion of the Country, is not a Diocesan Church there the same as a single Congregation, though the Diocess be larger?