A27050:416
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.
His cap. 4. is to prove that the power for Internal Effects of Grace in the Church by External acts, is exercised only Ministerially, by Ministers as such, Instanced cap: 5. in Baptism cap. 6. in the Lords Supper, cap. 7. in Confessions and Penance; and cap. 9. in that Fxcommunication which is the exercise of the Keys (for he mistaketh in excluding Baptism from the Keys, which indeed is the first use for intromission.) Cap. 12. He again purposely showeth who are the Ministers of each Ordinance. And first again Vindicateth his Uniting of Order and proper Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical as before.
His cap. 4. is to prove that the power for Internal Effects of Grace in the Church by External acts, is exercised only Ministerially, by Ministers as such, Instanced cap: 5. in Baptisme cap. 6. in the Lords Supper, cap. 7. in Confessions and Penance; and cap. 9. in that Fxcommunication which is the exercise of the Keys (for he mistaketh in excluding Baptism from the Keys, which indeed is the first use for intromission.) Cap. 12. He again purposely sheweth who are the Ministers of each Ordinance. And first again Vindicateth his Uniting of Order and proper Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical as before.
§. 4. p. 465. He confidently saith, that to him it is a most certain thing that the power of Order, is of the Word, Sacrament and Keys, and that it is, plena, tota, integra, fully, totally, entirely in every Bishop and lawful Presbyter.
§. 4. p. 465. He confidently saith, that to him it is a most certain thing that the power of Order, is of the Word, Sacrament and Keys, and that it is, plena, tota, integra, fully, totally, intirely in every Bishop and lawful Prosbyter.
§. 22. p. 472. He saith, that Confirmation is neither a true Sacrament, but a part of the Ceremonies of Baptism; nor is it at all of Divine, but of humane Ecclesiastical Institution; nor doth it suppose any special power given by God to him that administereth it, for any special supernatural effect But the Church for honour reserveth this Ceremony to the Bishop.