A27050:910
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 Vers. 34. For God is not the Author of Confusion, but of Peace, as in all the Churches of the Saints.
So Vers. 14. Let your women keep silence in the Church, for it is a shame for women to speak in the Church.
So Act. 11. 26. A whole year they assembled themselves with the Church, and taught much people.
Act. 14. 27. When they were come, and had gathered the Church together, they rehearsed all that God had done by them.
Act. 15. 3. And they were brought on their way by the Church,] which must signify such a number as might be called the Church, when part was but for the whole, at least.