A27050:873
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
Part 2 › Chapter 1: The clearing of the state of the Question.
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. That these particular Churches with their Bishop and Presbytery are Independent, so far that no other Bishop or Church hath a Divine Right to Govern them, saving what is anon to be said of General Pastors or Visitors, and the power of each Minister in the Universal Church, as he is called.
3. That these particular Churches with their Bishop and Presbytery are Independant, so far that no other Bishop or Church hath a Divine Right to Govern them, saving what is anon to be said of General Pastors or Visiiters, and the power of each Minister in the Universal Church, as he is called.
4. That as to the Communion of several Churches among themselves, these particular Churches are not Independent, but must hold Concord and Correspondency by Letters, Messengers or Synods as there shall be cause.
5. That in these Synods it is lawful and orderly oftentimes to make some one the Moderator or Guide of their debates. And that either pro tempore, or quamdiu sit maxim idoneus, or durante vita, as true Prudence shall discern it to be most conducible to the end.
5. That in these Synods it is lawful and orderly oftentimes to make some one the Moderator or Guide of their debates. And that either pro tempore, or quamdiu sit maxime idoneus, or durante vita, as true Prudence shall discern it to be most conducible to the end.