A27050:79
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
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10. And we know how pleasantly the Papists insult to hear us stigmatized for Villains and seditious Persons by our brethren, and what use they will make of it at present and in future History to the Service of their malice, and injury to the truth: which we ought not silently still to suffer; while we see how hereby they do already multiply.
11. And how unlikely soever it be, it is not impossible, that our Superiors, that at once deposed and silenced about 1800. Ministers of Christ, when they see what Reasons we have for our Non-conformity, may be moved to restore those that yet survive: And then how many thousand souls would have the joy and benefit?
11. And how unlikely soever it be, it is not impossible, that our Superiours, that at once deposed and silenced about 1800. Ministers of Christ, when they see what Reasons we have for our Non-conformity, may be moved to restore those that yet survive: And then how many thousand souls would have the joy and benefit?
12. Lastly, Truth and the just information of Posterity, is a thing exceedingly desirable to ingenuous minds: It is a great trouble to think that the Ages to come, should be injured by false History. Therefore we must do our best, that they may but truly know our Case; and then let them judge of the Persons and Actions of this our Age, as they shall find Cause, when Truth is opened to-them.