A27050:591
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.
13. And by their Rule all the Bishops of England are unbishoped, and their Diocesan Churches are unchurched. For 1. Some of them (in Wales and Man) have no Cities now called such. 2. Others of them have many Cities (not only Coventry and Lichfield, Bath and Wells now called Cities, but) abundance of Corporations really Cities. 3. And the Cities in England, Scotland and Ireland have no Civil Government over all the Countries, Corporations, Villages of the Diocese at all: nor are they Seats of Presidents or Lieutenants that have such Rule, so that our Dioceses are not modelled to the form of the Civil Government. What subjection doth Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. owe to the Town of Lincoln?
13. And by their Rule all the Bishops of England are unbishoped, and their Diocesan Churches are unchurched. For 1. Some of them (in Wales and Man) have no Cities now called such. 2. Others of them have many Cities (not only Coventry and Lichfield, Bath and Wells now called Cities, but) abundance of Corporations really Cities. 3. And the Cities in England, Scotland and Ireland have no Civil Government over all the Countries, Corporations, Villages of the Diocefe at all: nor are they Seats of Presidents or Lieutenants that have such Rule, so that our Dioceses are not modelled to the form of the Civil Government. What subjection doth Hartfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. owe to the Town of Lincolne?
14. By their model it is not Bishops and Metropolitans alone that are of divine right: For if the Church Government must be modelled to the Civill, the Imperial Churches must have had Officers to answer all the Proconsuls and Prefects, the Lieutenants, the Vicars, the Consular ⟨p. 118⟩Presidents, the Corr•ctors &c. For who can prove that one sort or two only must by imitated and not others.
14. By their model it is not Bishops and Metropolitans alone that are of divine right: For if the Church Government must be modelled to the Civill, the Imperial Churches must have had Officers to answer all the Proconsuls and Presects, the Lieutenants, the Vicars, the Consular