A27050:583
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.
And though [every City be mentioned Tit. 1. 5. that only showeth that de facto then and there, Village Churches were rare or none, but not de jure they must not be gathered: nor doth he say [ordain Elders in Cities only]: much less [give them Rule according to the City power.]
And though [every City be mentioned Tit. 1. 5. that only sheweth that de facto then and there, Village Churches were rare or none, but not de jure they must not be gathered: nor doth he say [ordain Elders in Cities only]: much less [give them Rule according to the City power.]
And as Ceuchrea had a Church, which was no City, so Act. 14. 23. will prove that they should have a Bishop. For every Church is to have a Bishop. And Ceuchrea was not a family-Church; and so the name not used equivocally: And Bishop Downams assertion that it was a Church with a mean Presbyter under the Bishop of Corinth, is a naked unproved saying that deserveth no credit; and is contradicted by Doctor Hammond, who saith there was there no mere Presbyter in being.
And as Ceuchrea had a Church, which was no City, so Act. 14. 23. will prove that they should have a Bishop. For every Church is to have a Bishop. And Ceuchrea was not a family-Church; and so the name not used equivocally: And Bishop Downams assertion that it was a Church with a mean Presbyter under the Bishop of Corinth, is a naked unproved saying that deserveth no credit; and is contradicted by Doctor Hammond, who saith there was there no meer Presbyter in being.