A27050:904
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.
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.
Obj. But is not the whole man edified (naturally or morally) by the edification of a part? Answ. Yes, if it be a noble part: Because the whole man being naturally One, by the unity of the soul or form, there is a natural Communion and Communication from part to part: But one Corporation in a Kingdom, may be edified or enriched without the wealth or edification of the rest. And this Text plainly speaketh of Immediate Edification of that Church that heareth, and this at once, and by one speaker.
So Vers. 19. In the Church I had rather speak one word with my understanding, that I may teach others. Here the Church is plainly taken for the Assembly.