A27050:891
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.
Ergo, The Diocesan English frame is inconsistent with (or destructive of) the Species of the Holy Ghosts institution.
Ergo, The Diocesane English frame is inconsistent with (or destructive of) the Species of the Holy Ghosts institution.
In the Major, 1. By [Bishops] I mean, Sacred Ministers authorized by Divine appointment, to be the stated Guides of the Church, by Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, under Christ the Teacher, Priest and Ruler of the Church. Whether he have a superior Arch-Bishop I determine not; Nor now whether he may ordain Pastors for other Churches.
What I mean by [Personal Communion] and whether it be consistent with divers Assemblies, I have fully showed before. I mean, that the said Churches were no more numerous than our English Parishes, nor had more Assemblies; Or no more than could have the same personal Communion, and that there were never any Churches infimae•vel prime speciei, which consisted of many such stated Assemblies.
What I mean by [Personal Communion] and whether it be consistent with divers Assemblies, I have fully shewed before. I mean, that the said Churches were no more numerous than our English Parishes, nor had more Assemblies; Or no more than could have the same personal Communion, and that there were never any Churches infimae•vel prime speciei, which consisted of many such stated Assemblies.