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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.
I have given my Reasons, to prove that these Presbyters were in the One Church of Corinth: Compare his (if you can find them) to the contrary, and Judge Impartially as you see cause.
Cap. 8. Hath nothing that concerneth us, but the recital of his grand▪ Concession, lest we should think that in Clemens days, the great Bishop of Corinth, or any in Achaia, had any more Church-assemblies than one to whom he could do all the Pastoral Offices himself, he thus concludeth, §. 9. [Indeed mention is found only of Bishops (with Deacons) constituted in each City, sometimes under the Title of Bishops, sometimes of Presbyters; there being no token or foot-step at all appearing of such as we now call Presbyters, &c.] To which I wholly agree; though not that there was but one Presbyter in Corinth.
Cap. 8. Hath nothing that concerneth us, but the recitall of his grand▪ Concession, lest we should think that in Clemens days, the great Bishop of Corinth, or any in Achaia, had any more Church-assemblies than one to whom he could do all the Pastoral Offices himself, he thus concludeth, §. 9. [Indeed mention is found only of Bishops (with Deacons) constituted in each City, sometimes under the Title of Bishops, sometimes of Presbyters; there being no token or foot-step at all appearing of such as we now call Presbyters, &c.] To which I wholly agree; though not that there was but one Presbyter in Corinth.
Cap. 9. He is offended much with Blondel, for reproaching Hermas, and yet using his Testimony: As if a Heretics, or an Infidels Testimony might not be used in point of History: And, §. 14. he again cometh to his supposition of Bishops without Subject Presbyters, as if it served his turn more than ours.