A27050:669
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. In the Assemblies, 1. It is the Bishops office to be the chief Teacher of the Church; to preach, instruct, exhort and comfort them usually himself; And when he doth it not himself to appoint another, and judge of his performance. (I shall reserve the proof to the 2d. part, where all this is to be reviewed to a further use.) And this is the work of one that is present.
2. He is to be the mouth or Intercessor of the people, as a Priest under Christ the Great high Priest and Intercessor: To pray in the Assembly, to be their mouth in the common confession of sins: To praise God and give thanks with and for them; to whom they are to join in consent with their Amen, (at least.) And this is the work of a present Person.
2. He is to be the mouth or Intercessor of the people, as a Priest under Christ the Great high Priest and Intercessor: To pray in the Assembly, to be their mouth in the common confession of sins: To praise God and give thanks with and for them; to whom they are to joyn in consent with their Amen, (at least.) And this is the work of a present Person.
3. He is to Baptize and admit persons into the visible Church; Or to try and judg who is fit to be Baptized, and to admit them by some other Minister of Christ; but he can neither Baptize, nor try and judge particularly who is to be baptized (at least of the Adult) unless he be present and know the persons, and hear his confession and receive his claim.
3. He is to Baptize and admit persons into the visible Church; Or to try and judg who is fit to be Baptized, and to admit them by some other Minister of Christ; but he can neither Baptize, nor try and judge particularly who is to be baptized (at least of the Adult) unless he be present and know the persons, and hear his confession and receive his claime.