A27050:716
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.
Moreover my Lord Bacon in his considerations as hath well manifested (if impartial wise men could have bin heard) that the office of a Bishop is a function consisting in the exercise of personal skill, or abilities: and therefore must be done by him that hath them, and not committed to another, as the office of a Judg, or Lawyer, of a Physician, of a Tutor, &c. no man chooseth a Tutor or Physician merely to send another to him for his Tutor or Physician, but •• do the work himself. It is not like the place of a King, whose right dependeth not on his parts or skill, because he may Govern by others that are able.
Moreover my Lord Bacon in his considerations as hath well manifested (if impartiall wise men could have bin heard) that the office of a Bishop is a function consisting in the exercise of personall skill, or abilities: and therefore must be done by him that hath them, and not committed to another, as the office of a Judg, or Lawyer, of a Phisitian, of a Tutor, &c. no man chooseth a Tutor or Phisitian meerly to send another to him for his Tutor or Phisitian, but •• do the work himself. It is not like the place of a King, whose right dependeth not on his parts or skill, because he may Govern by others that are able.
And Grotius (who one would think by their respect to him, should have been regarded by them) truly saith de Imperio sum. potest. Pag. 290 [Nam illud [Quod quis per alium facit, per se facere videtur] ad eas tantum pertinet actions quarum causa efficiens proxima a jure indefinita est] that is [For this saying. That whose a man doth by another, he seemeth to do by himself, belongeth only to those actions, which nearest efficient cause is not defined by the Law] But sure when God made the Pastoral office; he meant that the persons called to it, should do the work and not only appoint other men to do it.
And Grotius (who one would think by their respect to him, should have been regarded by them) truly saith de Imperio sum. potest. Pag. 290 [Nam illud [Quod quis per alium facit, per se facere videtur] ad eas tantum pertinet actiones quarum causa efficiens proxima a jure indefinita est] that is [For this saying. That whose a man doth by another, he seemeth to do by himself, belongeth only to those actions, which neerest efficient cause is not defined by the Law] But sure when God made the Pastoral office; he meant that the persons called to it, should do the work and not only appoint other men to do it.