A27050:379
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.
8. The Learned Bishop Andrews in his Epistles to Pet. Molinaeus, hath1 said somewhat; but in his Scheme (Printed at Oxford, 1641. before the Treatises for Episcopacy) much more. But as to his Description of the Jewish Form, we dare not thence gather that Christians may imitate them, while we know that the cessation of the Jewish Policy and Law is so largely pleaded for by Paul, and that Christ is the perfect Lawgiver to his Church, and that we must not add or alter on pretence of supposed parity of reason. And as to his Reasons for Diocesans from the New Testament, though the well ordering of them make them very taking, yet when examined, they are no other but what we have found and answered in others.
8. The Learned Bishop Andrews in his Epistles to Pet. Molinaeus, hath1 said somewhat; but in his Scheme (Printed at Oxford, 1641. before the Treatises for Episcopacy) much more. But as to his Description of the Jewish Form, we dare not thence gather that Christians may imitate them, while we know that the cessation of the Jewish Policy and Law is so largely pleaded for by Paul, and that Christ is the perfect Lawgiver to his Church, and that we must not add or alter on pretence of supposed parity of reason. And as to his Reasons for Diocesanes from the New Testament, though the well ordering of them make them very taking, yet when examined, they are no other but what we have found and answered in others.
- 1Bish. Andrews.
9. The truly Learned, Reverend, and Godly Primate Usher, in the1 same forementioned Collection of Treatises hath one of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans, and another of the Proconsular Asia. But, 1. The utmost which he pleadeth for is no more than we acquiesce in, as ⟨p. 69⟩