A27050:902
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.
So 1 Cor. 14. 4. He that prophesieth edifieth the Church] that is, the Assembly that heareth him, and not many hundred such Assemblies that are out of hearing.
Vers. 5. Except he interpret that the Church may receive edifying.
Vers. 12. Seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the Church.
Object. May not the whole Church be edified per parts? Ans. Yes, but it must be per plures vel diversis vicibus. Not at once by the same man, if the far greatest part of the Church be absent.
Object. May not the whole Church be edified per partes? Ans. Yes, but it must be per plures vel diversis vicibus. Not at once by the same man, if the far greatest part of the Church be absent.