A27050:518
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.
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.]
Cap. 3. He only mentioneth the occasion of Clements Epistle, where without any Proof he extendeth the Sedition then raised by them, to the disturbance of the Civil Government and Peace: And if he had proved as he endeavoureth that by [Greek or Hebrew] is meant the Civil Rulers (which is utterly uncertain) yet the commendation of their Obedience, formerly to the Civil Power, as part of the Character of their orderliness and peaceableness, doth not prove that Rebellion against them was part of their following disorder.
Cap. 3. He only mentioneth the occasion of Clements Epistle, where without any Proof he extendeth the Sedition then raised by them, to the disturbance of the Civil Government and Peace: And if he had proved as he endeavoureth that by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is meant the Civil Rulers (which is utterly uncertain) yet the commendation of their Obedience, formerly to the Civil Power, as part of the Character of their orderliness and peaceableness, doth not prove that Rebellion against them was part of their following disorder.