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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 c. 9. §. 11. p. 286. •. 13. p. 287. He showeth, that in Vacancies, or the Bishops Absence, the Clergy of Presbyters have the whole Episcopal power of Government.
And c. 9. §. 11. p. 286. •. 13. p. 287. He sheweth, that in Vacancies, or the Bishops Absence, the Clergy of Presbyters have the whole Episcopal power of Government.
And p. 288, 289. He laboureth to prove, that one Church had many Bishops, and that it is but Ecclesiastical Law or Custom that one Church should have but one Bishop.
And p. 288, 289. He laboureth to prove, that one Church had many Bishops, and that it is but Ecclesiastical Law or Custome that one Church should have but one Bishop.
And §. 15. That if the Canons prohibited not, a Bishop might make all his Parish Presbyters full Bishops, as (§. 16.) in the Ministerial Essentials towards the Faithful, they are by Divine Right equals. Vid. & §. 20. page 291.