A27050:756
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.
7. Canons are made for the choice of what Translation of the Bible shall be used in all the Churches, and what version or metre of the singing Psalms. And of this also the three former things hold true.
7. Canons are made for the choice of what Translation of the Bible shall be used in all the Churches, and what version or meetre of the singing Psalmes. And of this also the three former things hold true.
8. Canons are made to impose a Liturgy, in what words Ministers shall speak to God and to the people. And, 1. This also the King may do and doth, 2. And it obligeth Bishops. 3. And Presbyters make it.
8. Canons are made to impose a Liturgie, in what words Ministers shall speak to God and to the people. And, 1. This also the King may do and doth, 2. And it obligeth Bishops. 3. And Presbyters make it.
9. Canons are made against Schismatics, new Discipline and constitutions, non-subscribers, unlicensed Preachers, for the book of Articles, of ordination, for Catechizing, Preaching, Marrying, Burying, Christing, and such like: In all which each of the said three answers hold.
9. Canons are made against Schismaticks, new Discipline and constitutions, non-subscribers, unlicensed Preachers, for the book of Articles, of ordination, for Catechizing, Preaching, Marrying, Burying, Christing, and such like: In all which each of the said three answers hold.