A27050:759
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.
10. Canons are made to keep Parents from open covenanting to God for their Children in Baptism, that they shall not be urged to be present, that God-fathers do that office and not they; As also that none be baptized without the transient Image of a Cross, and such like: whether this be well or ill done, the three former answers all hold in this.
11. All the Canons that are for the restraint of sin, as neglect of Church worship, profaning of it, and other abuses, have the same censure.
11. All the Canons that are for the restraint of sin, as neglect of Church worship, prophaning of it, and other abuses, have the same censure.
12. The circumstantiating Canons, how oft Bishops shall confirm, and whom they shall ordain, and how oft, and how oft the Common prayer be read, the Surplice worn, the Sacraments administered, in what place, what Registers to be kept, what order to be observed in reading the Scriptures and the Apocrypha, with abundance the like, have all the foresaid answers to prove that they are no proper work of a distinct order.
12. The circumstantiating Canons, how oft Bishops shall confirm, and whom they shall ordaine, and how oft, and how oft the Common prayer be read, the Surplice worne, the Sacraments administred, in what place, what Registers to be kept, what order to be observed in reading the Scriptures and the Apocrypha, with abundance the like, have all the foresaid answers to prove that they are no proper work of a distinct order.