A27050:793
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. But suppose the Divine institution be proved of Bishops ordination of subject Presbyters, let these three things more be noted.
1. That at least we have brought it to the Ancients measure, that excepta sola ordination, except only ordination, here is no work for to make a Bishops office of, but what a Presbyter may do.
1. That at least we have brought it to the Ancients measure, that excepta sola ordinatione, except only ordination, here is no work for to make a Bishops office of, but what a Presbyter may do.
2. That in this ordination they themselves acknowledge that the Presbyters may join, even in imposing hands, which is the note of Superiority (the lesser being blessed by the greater), and so Presbyters also (by Epiphanius's leave) do generare patres: And Bishops have not the sole power of ordination, but the chief.
2. That in this ordination they themselves acknowledg that the Presbyters may joyn, even in imposing hands, which is the note of Superiority (the lesser being blessed by the greater), and so Presbyters also (by Epiphanius's leave) do generare patres: And Bishops have not the sole power of ordination, but the chief.