A27050:392
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
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13. The Learned and Judicious Grotius, (before he turned to Cassander's 1and Erasmus's temperament in Religion) in his book de Imper. sum. pot. circa sacra, in almost all things speaketh the same which I approve and plead for; though he be for some Episcopacy.
- 1Grotius▪
1. As to the Pastoral power, it self in whomsoever, he affirmeth it to be but Nuntiative, Declarative, Suasory, and per consensum, and not any Imperium; Like the power of a Physician, a Counsellor, and an Ambassador.
1. As to the Pastoral power, it self in whomsoever, he affirmeth it to be but Nuntiative, Declarative, Suasory, and per consensum, and not any Imperium; Like the power of a Physitian, a Counsellor, and an Embassadour.
Chap. 4. But then by Imperium he meaneth that which is coactive by the Sword: And he acknowledgeth the power of the Ministry by the Word upon Consenters, to be of Divine Institution, so that they sin against God, who do reject it. And if the Pastors of the Church did meddle with no other power, we should the sooner be agreed. For my part I take the very power of the Keys, to be no other, than a power of applying God's Word to the Consciences of the Penitent and Impenitent, and the Church; and a power of judging who is fit or unfit for Church-communion according to God's Word, which judgment we can no otherwise execute but by the same Word, and by forbearing or exercising our own Ministerial actions to the person: (As a Physician may refuse to Medicate the unruly.)