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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.
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 1ampler Jurisdiction over them, not properly Ecclesiastical, it is not of our own power, but delegated from the Magistrates power, as I shall prove lib. 6. and 10.
And §. 5. To be plainly understood, he saith, We Bishops therefore must all remember, that All the Presbyters are our Brethren, and Collegues 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 1ampler Jurisdiction over them, not properly Ecclesiastical, it is not of our own power, but delegated from the Magistrates power, as I shall prove lib. 6. and 10.
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Yet plainer, §. 8, 9. p. 285. These Parish Presbyters have by Divine Right, full Power in the Ministry of Christ, and in these Parishes are the Ordinary Ministers, but under the Bishop. For the Bishop alone hath a General Ecclesiastical Government to settle Ministers in their Diocese—But being applied to the Government of their Church, they have the ordinary power, but Presbyterial in that Church.—By positive Right only Bishops are deputed to certain Seats.— ⟨p. 78⟩Yet Presbyters have so this Ordinary power, that they cannot by Humane Ecclesiastical Right reduce it into Act, till applied by the Bishop in his Diocese.—
Yet plainer, §. 8, 9. p. 285. These Parish Presbyters have by Divine Right, full Power in the Ministry of Christ, and in these Parishes are the Ordinary Ministers, but under the Bishop. For the Bishop alone hath a General Ecclesiastical Government to settle Ministers in their Diocess—But being applyed to the Government of their Church, they have the ordinary power, but Presbyterial in that Church.—By positive Right only Bishops are deputed to certain Seats.—