A27050:531
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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3. Whether I have not proved from 1 Cor. 14. &c. that the Church of Corinth had more Ministers, or Clergy men, or Pastors in it than one in Paul's time? And therefore was not without so soon after.
4. Whether it be credible that when it was but one or two Persons (p. 62.) by whom or for whose cause the Presbyters were ejected; that it is like either this one or two were members of more particular Churches in Achaia than one or two? Or that all the Churches of Achaia would so far own one or two mutineers in a particular Church, as to cast out many of their Ministers for their sakes?
4. Whether it be credible that when it was but one or two Persons (p. 62.) by whom or for whose cause the Pre•byters were ejected; that it is like either this one or two were members of more particular Churches in Achaia than one or two? Or that all the Churches of Achaia would so far own one or two mutineers in a particular Church, as to cast out many of their Ministers for their sakes?
5. Yea when Clemens whole scope intimateth that this one or two did this because they aspired after Power or Preeminence themselves: Could they expect themselves to be made the Rulers of more than one or two Churches?