A27050:752
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.
3. Canons are made for the regulating of Ministers attire, in the Church and out, and for officiating garments, as surplices &c. And of these I say the same as of the former. The King may do the same as Bishops may do, and Bishops themselves are bound by them, and ⟨p. 150⟩Presbyters make them, which three things prove that it is not the proper work of Bishops as a distinct order from mere Presbyters.
3. Canons are made for the regulating of Ministers attire, in the Church and out, and for officiating garments, as surplices &c. And of these I say the same as of the former. The King may do the same as Bishops may do, and Bishops themselves are bound by them, and ⟨p. 150⟩Presbyters make them, which three things prove that it is not the proper work of Bishops as a distinct order from meer Presbyters.
4. Canons are made for worship Ge•ures; in what gesture to pray, to receive the Sacrament, to use the Creed, &c. And the same three answers serve to this also, as to the case in hand.
5. Canons are made for Holidays, public Fasts, and Thanksgivings, and Lecture days. And the same three considerations fall in here.
5. Canons are made for Holidaies, publick Fasts, and Thanksgivings, and Lecture daies. And the same three considerations fall in here.