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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. The Churches that have no Bishops have incomparably less Heresy, Schism, Wickedness, and more concord then we have here. The Church of Scotland is an eminent instance, which hath known but little by experience what Schism or Heresies are. And so are the ⟨p. 165⟩Protestant Churches of France, of Geneva, of Helvetia, and other places:
3. The Churches that have no Bishops have incomparably lesse Heresie, Schism, Wickedness, and more concord then we have here. The Church of Scotland is an eminent instance, which hath known but little by experience what Schism or Heresies are. And so are the ⟨p. 165⟩Protestant Churches of France, of Geneva, of Helvetia, and other places:
4. Were but the true Episcopacy forementioned restored, we should yet less know any show of need for our Diocesan, Magistrate Ministers, and they would suffice, to do what on earth may be expected.
4. Were but the true Episcopacy forementioned restored, we should yet less know any shew of need for our Diocesane, Magistrate Ministers, and they would suffice, to do what on earth may be expected.
Obj. Were not Bishops the means of the Churches concord in all ages?
Obj. Were not Bishops the meanes of the Churches concord in all ages?