A27050:617
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.
1: WE deny not, but that Converts owe a peculiar love and respect to those as their fathers in Christ which did convert them; which Paul claimeth of the Corinthians. 2. And we deny not but caeteris paribus, that man being as fit a man as others, and his abode being nearer, and his Church being not full, but capable of them, this advantage should incline his converts, to choose him rather than another for their Pastor,
1: WE deny not, but that Converts owe a peculiar love and respect to those as their fathers in Christ which did convert them; which Paul claimeth of the Corinthians. 2. And we deny not but caeteris paribus, that man being as fit a man as others, and his abode being nearer, and his Church being not full, but capable of them, this advantage should encline his converts, to choose him rather than another for their Pastor,
But yet converting them as such giveth him not a right to govern them as their Pastor, nor necessitateth them to choose him: As I prove.
1. Because a Lay man (as Frumentius and Edesius and Origen, &c.) may convert men, who are not Pastors to them or any.