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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.
The Opposers of Prelacy.
To name the Authors that write on the other side (or some of them) is enough, Viz. 1. Beza, 2. Cartwright, 3. Jacob against Downame, 4. Didoclane alias Ca'derwood's Altar Damascenum, 5. Learned Parker de Polit. Ecclesiast. (not so florid as his Treat. of the Cross, but more nervous) 6. Holy and Learned Paul Bath (Perkin's Successor) his Diocesan's Trial, short and nervous, in Syllogisms. 7. Salmasius in 2 Books (Apparat. ad primat. P. & Walo. Messalinus,) 8. Before him Gersom Bucer dissert. de Gubern. Ecclesiae, against Downame, large and learned. 9. Jer. Burroughs, in 2 or 3 sheets, Argumentatively. 10. Prins unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, 11. Dr. Bastwick's Flagellum Pontificis & Episcoporum Latialium (oratorical) 12. And such are Miltons. 13. Smectymnuus, that is, Steph. Marshal, Edw. Calamy, Tho. Young, Mat. Newcomen, and Will. Spurstow: And a defence of it. 14. The Lond. Ministers Jus Divinum, Presb. & Minist. 15. The Isle of Wight Papers. 16. Dav. Blondel (that wonder of the world, for Chronology and History.) A few leaves of whose over-large Collections, Dr. Hammond hath Answered, as you have heard, and given his reason for going no further, because Blond. extendeth the Ministerial Parity but to 140. But to us it is not so inconsiderable to see by what degrees the Prelacy rose, and to see it proved so copiously, that even in after Ages the species extent and of Churches, and the Order or Species of Presbyters were not altered, notwithstanding accidental alterations. And therefore I shall undertake to bring proof enough of what I now plead for from times much lower than 140, such as I think the impartial will rest satisfied in, though interest and preconceived Idea's are seldom satisfied, or conqueredly a Confutation.
To name the Authors that write on the other side (or some of them) is enough, Viz. 1. Beza, 2. Cartwright, 3. Jacob against Downame, 4. Didoclane alias Ca'derwood's Altare Damascenum, 5. Learned Parker de Polit. Ecclesiast. (not so florid as his Treat. of the Cross, but more nervous) 6. Holy and Learned Paul Baine (Perkin's Successor) his Diocesan's Tryal, short and nervous, in Syllogisms. 7. Salmasius in 2 Books (Apparat. ad primat. P. & Walo. Messalinus,) 8. Before him Gersom Bucer dissert. de Gubern. Ecclesiae, against Downame, large and learned. 9. Jer. Burroughs, in 2 or 3 sheets, Argumentatively. 10. Prins unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, 11. Dr. Bastwick's Flagellum Pontificis & Episcoporum Latialium (oratorical) 12. And such are Miltons. 13. Smectymnuus, that is, Steph. Marshal, Edw. Calamy, Tho. Young, Mat. Newcomen, and Will. Spurstow: And a defence of it. 14. The Lond. Ministers Jus Divinum, Presb. & Minist. 15. The Isle of Wight Papers. 16. Dav. Blondel (that wonder of the world, for Chronology and History.) A few leaves of whose over-large Collections, Dr. Hammond hath Answered, as you have heard, and given his reason for going no further, because Blond. extendeth the Ministerial Parity but to 140. But to us it is not so inconsiderable to see by what degres the Prelacy rose, and to see it proved so copiously, that even in after Ages the species extent and of Churches, and the Order or Species of Presbyters were not altered, notwithstanding accidental alterations. And therefore I shall undertake to bring proofenough of what I now plead for from times much lower than 140, such as I think the impartal will rest satisfied in, though interest and preconceived Idea's are seldom satisfied, or conqueredly a Confutation.