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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.
There are lately published of this Authors these two Books following, and sold by Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgatestreet.
There are lately published of this Authors these two Books following, and sold by Thomas Simmons at the Princes Armes in Ludgatestreet.
Church-History of the Government of Bishops and their Councils, Abbreviated. Including the chief part of the Government of Christian Princes and Popes, and a true account of the most troubling Controversies and Heresies till the Reformation. Written for the use especially of them, I. Who are ignorant or misinformed of the state of the Ancient Churches. II. Who cannot read many and great Volumes. III. Who think that the Universal Church must have one Visible Sovereign, Personal or Collective, Pope or General Councils. IV. Who would know whether Patriarchs, Diocesans, and their Councils, have been, or must be the cure of Heresies and Schisms. V. Who would know the truth about the great Heresies which have divided the Christian World, especially the Donatists, Novatians, Arians, Macedonians, Nestorians, Eutychians, Monothelites, &c. By Richard Baxter, a Hater of False History.
CHurch-History of the Government of Bishops and their Councils, Abbreviated. Including the chief part of the Government of Christian Princes and Popes, and a true account of the most troubling Controversies and Heresies till the Reformation. Written for the use especially of them, I. Who are ignorant or misinformed of the state of the Antient Churches. II. Who cannot read many and great Volumes. III. Who think that the Universal Church must have one Visible Soveraign, Personal or Collective, Pope or General Councils. IV. Who would know whether Patriarchs, Diocesans, and their Councils, have been, or must be the cure of Heresies and Schismes. V. Who would know the truth about the great Heresies which have divided the Christian World, especially the Donatists, Novatians, Arrians, Macedonians, Nestorians, Eutychians, Monothelites, &c. By Richard Baxter, a Hater of False History.