A27050:453
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
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and included those 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Ages, which Erasmus and all learned men (even Bellarmine himself) so dolefully bewail. And that when Boys, and Whores, and Sorcerers, and Murderers, and Heretics, and Schismatics ruled the Church, they were happy that had a part in this first Resurrection to all this Glory, yea, that these are Holy too, Rev. 20. 6. And that the second death shall have no power on them; that is while they are drowning the true Churches of Christ in the Floods of all abomination, and bringing in all corruption, and laying the grounds of all division, subduing Kings, and murdering Christians by thousands, till the Year 1300. Blessed and holy and happy are they, because though they persecute the Godly, they are free from being persecuted ⟨p. 85⟩themselves, which is the second death: Yea, that the Church was freed from persecution in the Ages when the poor Waldenses, and Albigenses were murdered in greater numbers than ever the Heathens murdered the Christians heretofore. When I can believe abundance of such things as these, I will believe Dr. Hammond's first Dissertation.
and included those 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Ages, which Erasmus and all learned men (even Bellarmine himself) so dolefully bewail. And that when Boys, and Whores, and Sorcerers, and Murderers, and Hereticks, and Schismaticks ruled the Church, they were happy that had a part in this first Resurrection to all this Glory, yea, that these are Holy too, Rev. 20. 6. And that the second death shall have no power on them; that is while they are drowning the true Churches of Christ in the Floods of all abomination, and bringing in all corruption, and laying the grounds of all division, subduing Kings, and murdering Christians by thousands, till the Year 1300. Blessed and holy and happy are they, because though they persecute the Godly, they are free from being persecuted ⟨p. 85⟩themselves, which is the second death: Yea, that the Church was freed from persecution in the Ages when the poor Waldenses, and Albigenses were murdered in greater numbers than ever the Heathens murdered the Christians heretofore. When I can believe abundance of such things as these, I will believe Dr. Hammond's first Dissertation.