A27050:919
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.
If any here say that so many thousands could not be of one Assembly, I have answered it before. 1. I have preached (as was supposed) to ten thousand at once. 2. Some of our Parishes that have but one Church, are thirty thousand, some forty thousand, some fifty thousand. 3. There were strangers at Jerusalem from all parts. 4. The next Verse saith [There came also a multitude out of the Cities round about unto Jerusalem.] 5. The multitude were not yet perfectly embodied, and were quickly scattered.
Col. 4. 16. When this Epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans, &c. It is not [to the Church] for then you might have said that so it may be if the Church consisted of many Assemblies: But it is [in the Church] which intimateth that the Church was but one Assembly. And so that of Coloss answerably.
Col. 4. 16. When this Epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans, &c. It is not [to the Church] for then you might have said that so it may be if the Church consisted of many Assemblies: But it is [in the Church] which intimateth that the Church was but one Assembly. And so that of Colosse answerably.
All these Texts and others such plainly tell us whether a Church there was one Assembly or many hundred.