A27050:795
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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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.
3. And whether a chief power in investing men in the Ministerial office, do make a distinct order or office de nomine, let them contend that please dear▪ if this were all, we were agreed: For my part, I had rather that Bishops had not only a chief power as moderators, But even a Negative voice in ordination, yea and in Removals and fixing of Ministers, than not: For in so weighty a business two Locks and Keys to keep out bad men, are surer than one. And the poor silenced Nonconformists have yielded to much more than this.
3. And whether a chief power in investing men in the Ministerial office, do make a distinct order or office de nomine, let them contend that please dere▪ if this wereall, we were agreed: For my part, I had rather that Bishops had not only a chief power as moderators, But even a Negative voice in ordination, yea and in Removals and fixing of Ministers, than not: For in so weighty a business two Locks and Keyes to keep out bad men, are surer than one. And the poor silenced Nonconformists have yielded to much more than this.