A27050:656
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.
2. Whether there must not be some present Pastors to officiate before the Church in all these?
3. Whether this Congregation must not be Christians, and persons qualified for Communion? and whether the Churches have not always (by the holy Spirits appointment) differenced between Christians and Infidels, and between Heretical or flagitious persons, and the orderly and obedient? and admitted the first sort only to Communion?
3. Whether this Congregation must not be Christians, and persons qualified for Communion? and whether the Churches have not alwaies (by the holy Spirits appointment) differenced between Christians and Infidels, and between Heretical or flagitious persons, and the orderly and obedient? and admitted the first sort only to Communion?
4. Whether he that is present and delivereth the Sacrament, should not know what he doth, and to whom he giveth it, and should not in the administering make a difference, and keep away the Infidels, Heretics and openly flagitious, and should not know the people whom he overseeth?
4. Whether he that is present and delivereth the Sacrament, should not know what he doth, and to whom he giveth it, and should not in the administring make a difference, and keep away the Infidels, Heriticks and openly flagitious, and should not know the people whom he overseeth?