A27050:888
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 Minor I thus prove.
The Species of a particular Church which the Holy Ghost did institute, was [one Society of Christians united under one or more Bishops, for personal Communion in public worship and holy living▪ ]
The Species of a particular Church which the Holy Ghost did institute, was [one Society of Christians united under one or more Bishops, for personal Communion in publick worship and holy living▪ ]
The Diocesan English frame is (destructive of or) inconsistent with this species of a particular Church.
The Diocesane English frame is (destructive of or) inconsistent with this species of a particular Church.
Ergo, The Diocesan English frame is inconsistent with (or destructive of) the Species of the Holy Ghosts institution.