A27050:672
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.
4. He is to Celebrate the Supper of the Lord, to consecrate the Bread and Wine, to be the Messenger of Christ in his name to deliver them as his body and blood, and the Seals of his Love, and of Remission of sins unto the people, and so to commemorate his death till he come, and as his Steward to give his household meat in season; but this is all the work of a Present and not an absent Person.
4. He is to Celebrate the Supper of the Lord, to consecrate the Bread and Wine, to be the Messenger of Christ in his name to deliver them as his body and blood, and the Seals of his Love, and of Remission of sins unto the people, and so to commemorate his death till he come, and as his Steward to give his houseshold meat in season; but this is all the work of a Present and not an absent Person.
5. He is to be the judge of the claim and title of the persons that come to the Churches Communion; to see that Infidels and incapable persons be not there, which is not well done by one that is not ordinarily present, even in the Administration to see to whom it is administered.
5. He is to be the judge of the claime and title of the persons that come to the Churches Communion; to see that Infidels and incapable persons be not there, which is not well done by one that is not ordinarily present, even in the Administration to see to whom it is administred.
6. He is to be the chief public reprover, and admonisher of Scandalous persons by name, who are so to be openly reproved and admonished in the Church, which he cannot well do if he be not in the Church himself.
6. He is to be the chief publick reprover, and admonisher of Scandalous persons by name, who are so to be openly reproved and admonished in the Church, which he cannot well do if he be not in the Church himself.