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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.
CHAP. II. The first Argument against the English Diocesans; That their form (quantum in se) destroyeth the particular Church Form of God's Institution, and setteth up a Humane Form in its stead.
ARGUMENT I.
WE cannot subscribe or swear to that form of Church Government as good or lawful, which in its nature excludeth or destroyeth the very specific nature of the particular Churches which were instituted by the Holy Ghost, and settled in the primitive times, and is it self a humane from set up in their stead.
WE cannot subscribe or swear to that form of Church Government as good or lawful, which in its nature excludeth or destroyeth the very specifical nature of the particular Churches which were instituted by the Holy Ghost, and setled in the primitive times, and is it self a humane from set up in their stead.
But such we take the present Diocesan form to be: Ergo,
But such we take the present Diocesane form to be: Ergo,