A27050:682
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.
5. It is the Bishops work to visit the sick and to pray with and for them, which requireth presence.
6. It is the Bishops work to stir up the people that are d•ll and backward to their several duties, in public and in private, and to provoke them to love and to good works which is the work especially of present and not of absent men.
6. It is the Bishops work to stir up the people that are d•ll and backward to their several duties, in publick and in private, and to provoke them to love and to good works which is the work especially of present and not of absent men.
7. And it is his duty to have a special care of the poor, and to see that they be relieved; which he will never do well in absence and to the unknown.
8. And it is confessed to be the Bishops work to admonish the unruly, to reprove and exhort ungodly persons, to convince gainsayers, to hear the accused speak for themselves, to hear what accusers and witnesses say against them; which requireth presence, as shall be further shown anon.