A27050:516
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. Was it all the Churches of Achaia, which 1 Cor. 14. are said to meet all in one place, and to have so many Prophets and Interpreters in that one Assembly? I am not at leisure to say more of this.
But who denieth that the same Epistle which was directed first to the Corinthians, was secondarily directed to the rest of Achaia, and to be Communicated to them. And yet not the Churches of Achaia be all said to be or dwell at Corinth.
But who denieth that the same Epistle which was directed first to the Corinthians, was secondarily directed to the rest of Achia, and to be Communicated to them. And yet not the Churches of Achaia be all said to be or dwell at Corinth.
When 2 Cor. 11. 10. Paul speaketh of [the Regions of Achaia ([Greek or Hebrew]) he saith that showeth that the matter belonged [to the whole Church of Achaia.] But how long have they all been challenged to name one Text of Scripture, that speaketh singularly of the Church of a Province or Country, consisting of many particular Churches: Yet addeth he [In re manifesta non pluribus opus est.]
When 2 Cor. 11. 10. Paul speaketh of [the Regions of Achaia (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) he saith that sheweth that the matter belonged [to the whole Church of Achaia.] But how long have they all been challenged to name one Text of Scripture, that speaketh singularly of the Church of a Province or Countrey, consisting of many particular Churches: Yet addeth he [In re manifesta non pluribus opus est.]