A27050:512
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.
Cap. 2. Of Clements Epistle he first takes notice of the Inscription [to the Church of God, dwelling (or sojourning) at Corinth] The same Phrase as Philip. •. 1, 2. And by this Church he proveth (by confident affirming) that all the Churches of Achaia are meant. And that the same is to be said of Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, he unresistibly proveth, by saying that Quisquis eas vel leviter degustaverit (tuo scilicet gustu) hoc omnino pronunciandum esse nobiscum statuet. Nec igitur de hac Clementis ambigi poterit.] And so all that Controversy is ended. But though (without Scripture proof) imagination might handsomely feign, that the many Churches of Achaia are called singularly [the Church of Corinth,] as one, because of the Unity of the Metropolitan; yet, 1. I would have heard somewhat like reason for, and some instances of the use of such a speech, as this [[Greek or Hebrew]] The Church of God dwelling (or sojourning) at Rome, to the Church of God dwelling (or sojourning) at Corinth. And why and where, and by what good writers; all Achaia is called Corinth, or all Macedonia, Philippi (or all the Cities about it) indeed as the County of Worcester, the County of York, of Warwick, &c. are usual Titles, so may the Church of York, Worcester, Warwick, be in the Diocesans sense. But whoever said of all the County or Diocese [To the County, Diocese, dwelling at York, Worcester, Warwick?] As if all the Country and Towns belonging to that Circuit were called Warwick. &c.
Cap. 2. Of Clements Epistle he first takes notice of the Inscription [to the Church of God, dwelling (or sojourning) at Corinth] The same Phrase as Philip. •. 1, 2. And by this Church he proveth (by confident affirming) that all the Churches of Achaia are meant. And that the same is to be said of Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, he unresistibly proveth, by saying that Quisquis eas vel leviter degustaverit (tuo scilicet gustu) hoc omnino pronunciandum esse nobiscum statuet. Nec igitur de hac Clementis ambigi poterit.] And so all that Controversie is ended. But though (without Scripture proof) imagination might handsomely feign, that the many Churches of Achaia are called singularly [the Church of Corinth,] as one, because of the Unity of the Metropolitane; yet, 1. I would have heard somewhat like reason for, and some instances of the use of such a speech, as this [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] The Church of God dwelling (or sojourning) at Rome, to the Church of God dwelling (or sojourning) at Corinth. And why and where, and by what good writers; all Achaia is called Corinth, or all Macedonia, Philippi (or all the Cities about it) indeed as the County of Worcester, the County of York, of Warwick, &c. are usual Titles, so may the Church of York, Worcester, Warwick, be in the Diocesans sense. But whoever said of all the County or Diocess [To the County, Diocess, dwelling at York, Worcester, Warwick?] As if all the Countrey and Towns belonging to that Circuit were called Warwick. &c.