A27050:857
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.
THE Second Part.
Having in the former Part laid down those Grounds on which the Applicatory Part is to be built, and subverted the foundations of that Diocesan frame which we judge unlawful, I shall now proceed to give you the Application, in the particular Reasons of our judgment, from the Evils which we suppose this frame to be guilty of.
Having in the former Part laid down those Grounds on which the Applicatory Part is to be built, and subverted the foundations of that Diocesane frame which we judge unlawful, I shall now proceed to give you the Application, in the particular Reasons of our judgment, from the Evils which we suppose this frame to be guilty of.
CHAP. I. The clearing of the state of the Question.
THE occasion of our dispute, or rather Apology, is known in England. 1. Every man that is ordained Deacon or Presbyter (or licensed a Schoolmaster) must subscribe to the Books of Articles, Liturgy and Ordination, as Ex animo that there is nothing in them contrary to the Word of God. And by the late Act of Uniformity [that he doth assent and consent to all things contained in, and prescribed by the said books as since altered (we think for the worse.)