A27050:535
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.
7. If it was not all nor many Pastors that were thus turned out (as Clemens words import) why should all Achaia be called seditious, and blamed for it?
8. Doth not the common Law of Charity and Justice forbid us to extend those words of reproof to a whole Province, which cannot be proved to extend farther than to a single Church, and principally touched but one or two.
8. Doth not the common Law of Charity and Justice forbid us to extend those words of reproof to a whole Province, which cannot be proved to extend farther than to a single Church, and principally toucht but one or two.
9. I have before proved that Paul by [the Saints at Corinth] meaneth but one Church: Therefore it's like that Clemens doth so too.
10. The Bishops and Deacons that Clemens speaketh of, were set up [Greek or Hebrew], Cum consensu totius Ecclesiae, or as the Dr. will needs have it [applaudente aut congratulante tota Ecclesia] indeed [with the good liking, Pleasure, or Approbation of the whole Church.] And shall we be persuaded that all the Cities and Country of Achaia were that whole Church, which approved, or consented to these particular Pastors that were put out? Or that had Cognisance of them or acquaintance with them?