A27050:540
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.
12. p. 63. He supposeth the Person Emulating to be [a Believer of power in explaining Doctrine, wise in judging of Speeches, &c. And would have the concerned Person say (p. 69.) If the Sedition be for me, and the Contention and Schisms, I will remove, I will be gone wither you will, and will do what the People pre-determine of▪ (or command,) only let the Flock of Christ with the Presbyters set over them live in peace.] And is it like that the Flock that this Person must say so to, was all Achaia?
12. p. 63. He supposeth the Person Emulating to be [a Believer of power in explaining Doctrine, wise in judging of Speeches, &c. And would have the concern'd Person say (p. 69.) If the Sedition be for me, and the Contention and Schisms, I will remove, I will be gone wither you will, and will do what the People pre-determine of▪ (or command,) only let the Flock of Christ with the Presbyters set over them live in peace.] And is it like that the Flock that this Person must say so to, was all Achaia?
13. And p. 73. He requireth [those that begun the Sedition, to be obediently Subject ⟨p. 106⟩to the Presbyters (and not to their Bishop only.) And is it like to be the Bishops of other Churches through all Achaia, that this one or two is required to Obey and be in Subjection to.
13. And p. 73. He requireth [those that begun the Sedition, to be obediently Subject ⟨p. 106⟩to the Presbyters (and not to their Bishop onely.) And is it like to be the Bishops of other Churches through all Achaia, that this one or two is required to Obey and be in Subjection to.