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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.
Moreover in lib. 2. c. 3. §. 61. p. 210. He showeth that Clement, Linus, and Anacletus, were all Bishops in Rome at once.
Moreover in lib. 2. c. 3. §. 61. p. 210. He sheweth that Clement, Linus, and Anacletus, were all Bishops in Rome at once.
Lib. 2. c. 9. §. 1. p. 282. He showeth, that Bishops and Presbyters are wholly equal in all Essentials, which belong to the Ecclesiastical Ministries to be exercised towards the People. And that even in Government, the rest of the Presbyters (without excepting any) in every Church make one College, of which the Bishop is the Head; all Ordained to the same Cure and Government of Souls. (So this Diocese hath between a thousand and two thousand Ministers, living some of them an hundred or sixscore Miles distance, to make a College to the Bishop that is usually at London.) How the Bishop is bound to Govern with them, see him, §. 4.
Lib. 2. c. 9. §. 1. p. 282. He sheweth, that Bishops and Presbyters are wholly equal in all Essentials, which belong to the Ecclesiastical Ministries to be exercised towards the People. And that even in Government, the rest of the Presbyters (without excepting any) in every Church make one College, of which the Bishop is the Head; all Ordained to the same Cure and Government of Souls. (So this Diocess hath between a thousand and two thousand Ministers, living some of them an hundred or sixscore Miles distance, to make a College to the Bishop that is usually at London.) How the Bishop is bound to Govern with them, see him, §. 4.
And §. 5. To be plainly understood, he saith, We Bishops therefore must all remember, that All the Presbyters are our Brethren, and Colleagues in the Ministry; not our Servants or Slaves, and that by Divine Right they have no less power in feeding the people of God than we have: And if we exercise any External