A27050:438
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.
5. And if this Inspection would prove that they have not the Power or that their Office, or Order is therefore distinct, it will also prove that Bishops have not the Power of the Keys, because they exercise it under the Inspection of Metropolitans, Arch-Bishops, Primates, or Patriarchs: And also that they are of a distinct Order from all these: And that a Physician hath no Power to Guide or Govern his voluntary Patients in order to Cure, and that he is off a distinct Office from the College and President, because he is under their inspection. And are not all Bishops under the Government of the King, as well as Physicians and other Subjects: And have they no Power of the Keys, because he ruleth them.
5. And if this Inspection would prove that they have not the Power or that their Office, or Order is therefore distinct, it will also prove that Bishops have not the Power of the Keys, because they exercise it under the Inspection of Metropolitans, Arch-Bishops, Primates, or Patriarchs: And also that they are of a distinct Order from all these: And that a Physition hath no Power to Guide or Govern his voluntary Patients in order to Cure, and that he is off a distinct Office from the Colledge and President, because he is under their inspection. And are not all Bishops under the Government of the King, as well as Physitions and other Subjects: And have they no Power of the Keys, because he ruleth them.
And as a Presbyter might do nothing without the Bishop, so no one Bishop could do any thing without other Bishops: For he had no Episcopal Power till they ordained him.
And as to after Government or that which he calleth the grant of a Second Power.