A27050:404
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.
§. 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.
And §. 1. That therefore the different Government of the Churches that have Bishops, or that have none, should be no hindrance to Unity.
And §. 10, 11. That some Cities had no Bishops, and some more than one: And that not only in the Apostles •ays, but after, one City had several Bishops, in itation of the jews, who to every Synagogue had an Archisynagogus. Page 357. He showeth that there have been at Rome and elsewhere long vacancies of the Bishops See, in which the Presbyters Governed the Church without a Bishop; And saith, that all the Ancients do confess, that there is no act so proper to a Bishop, but a Presbyter may do it, except the right of Ordination. Yet showeth, p. 358. that Presbyters ordained with Bishops, and expoundeth the Canon thus, that Presbyters should Ordain none, contemning the Bishop.