A27050:483
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 I would learn, if I could, whether all the Apostles which staid long at Jerusalem, while James is supposed to be their Bishop, were not Bishops also with him? Whether they ceased to be Apostles to the People there? Or whether they were Apostles, and not Bishops? And whether they lost any of their Power by making James Bishop? And whether one Church then had not many Bishops at once? And if they made James greater than themselves, Whether according to your Premonition they did not give a Power or Honour which they had not (which you think unanswerable in our Case)?
Cap. 4. come in the Angels of the Churches, Rev. 1, 2, & 3. of which (though the matter be little to our Cause) I have said enough before, why I prefer the Exposition of Ticonivi, which Augustine seemeth to favour. And I find nothing here to the contrary that needeth a Reply.
Cap. 4. come in the Angels of the Churches, Rev. 1, 2, & 3. of which (though the matter be little to our Cause) I have said enough before, why I prefer the Exposition of Ticoniui, which Augustine seemeth to favour. And I find nothing here to the contrary that needeth a Reply.
Cap. 5. he would prove the Angels to be Archbishops; which if done, would not touch our Cause, who meddle not with Archbishops, but only prove, that the full Pastoral or Episcopal Office or power of the Keys as over the Flock, should be found in every particular Church that hath unum Altaere.
Cap. 5. he would prove the Angels to be Archbishops; which if done, would not touch our Cause, who meddle not with Archbishops, but onely prove, that the full Pastoral or Episcopal Office or power of the Keys as over the Flock, should be found in every particular Church that hath unum Altaere.