A27050:403
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.
And §. 27. He saith, It is doubtful whether Pastors where no Bishops are, and so are under none, though over none, are to be numbered with Bishops or mere Presbyters.
And §. 27. He saith, It is doubtful whether Pastors where no Bishops are, and so are under none, though over none, are to be numbered with Bishops or meer Presbyters.
§. 31. His counsel for the choice of Pastors is, that (as in Justinian's time) none be forced on the People against their wills, and yet a power reserved in the chief Rulers to rescind such elections as are made to the destruction of Church or Commonwealth.
§. 31. His counsel for the choice of Pastors is, that (as in Justinian's time) none be forced on the People against their wills, and yet a power reserv'd in the chief Rulers to rescind such elections as are made to the destruction of Church or Commonwealth.
Chap. 11. §. 10. He showeth that Bishops are not by Divine precept.
Chap. 11. §. 10. He sheweth that Bishops are not by Divine precept.