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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.
11. As to Joh. Forbes his Irenic. he maintaineth but such an Episcopacy1 as we offered to his Majesty in Bishop Usher's Reduction: He pleadeth for such a Bishop as is the Moderator of a Presbytery, p. 242, 243. and as must be subject to censure himself, p. 145. and that shall do nothing of weight without the Presbyteries consent, p. 145. and as is still bound to the Work of a Presbyters Office, p. 146. And that an Orthodox Church ⟨p. 71⟩that hath no Bishop or Moderator hath but a certain Economical defect, but is still a true Church, and hath the power that other Churches have that have Bishops, p. 158. And that jure divino Presbyters have the Power of Ordaining as well as of Preaching and Baptizing, though they must use it under the Bishops inspection in those places that have Bishops, page 164. And he is more full for the Power of Presbyters Ordaining, and the validity of it, than any man that I now remember.
11. As to Joh. Forbes his Irenic. he maintaineth but such an Episcopacy1 as we offered to his Majesty in Bishop Usher's Reduction: He pleadeth for such a Bishop as is the Moderator of a Presbytery, p. 242, 243. and as must be subject to censure himself, p. 145. and that shall do nothing of weight without the Presbyteries consent, p. 145. and as is still bound to the Work of a Presbyters Office, p. 146. And that an Orthodox Church ⟨p. 71⟩that hath no Bishop or Moderator hath but a certain Oeconomical defect, but is still a true Church, and hath the power that other Churches have that have Bishops, p. 158. And that jure divino Presbyters have the Power of Ordaining as well as of Preaching and Baptizing, though they must use it under the Bishops inspection in those places that have Bishops, page 164. And he is more full for the Power of Presbyters Ordaining, and the validity of it, than any man that I now remember.
- 1John Forbes