A27050:87
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 Bishops (who take place in Parliament of other Barons, as the Archbishops do of Dukes) [c] are all chosen really by the King, who nominateth in a Writ to the Dean and Chapter the man whom they must choose; who pro forma do choose him, never contradicting the Kings Nomination.
The Bishops (who take place in Parliament of other Barons, as the Archbishops do of Dukes) [c] are all chosen really by the King, who nominateth in a Writ to the Dean and Chapter the man whom they must chuse; who pro forma do chuse him, never contradicting the Kings Nomination.
- cCousins Tab. 5.Cosins Tab. 5.
Their proper Office consisteth in the powers of Order and of Jurisdiction, (as they distinguish them:) Their power of Order is threefold, 1. To Ordain Priests and Deacons. 2. To Consecrate Churches and Burying places; 3. To Confirm Children after Baptism, when they can speak and say the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue, and others that were not Confirmed in their Childhood. Besides, that they may be Privy-Counsellors, Lord-Keepers of the Great Seal, Lord Treasurers, Ambassadors, &c. Their ordinary Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction extendeth, 1. to the Interdiction ⟨p. 7⟩of Divine Offices; 2. to public Admonitions and Penances, 3. to suspension from the Sacrament, and from ingress into the Church, and 4. to Excommunication and Absolution, and 5. to Anathematisms. And as to Ministers, 1. They may Sequester Benefices. 2. They may Suspend ab officio & beneficio, and forbid them to Preach or Pray; Or grant License to such as shall be tolerated to Preach. 3. They may deprive; 4. And depose Ministers by sentence verbal, and degradation actually.