A27050:674
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.
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.
7. He is to be the chief public Excommunicator of the obstinately wicked, to declare before all that such a person is uncapable of communion with the Church: which is not well done by one that is not there to do it; as shall anon be further opened.
7. He is to be the chief publick Excommunicator of the obstinately wicked, to declare before all that such a person is uncapable of communion with the Church: which is not well done by one that is not there to do it; as shall anon be further opened.