A27050:923
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.
Heb. 13. 8, 17, 24. Remember them which have the rule over you, which have spoken to you the word of God. Obey them that have the Rule over you, and submit your selves, for they watch for your souls as they that must give account. So that a Church was no bigger than the Bishops could speak the word of God to, and could watch for their souls. But I never saw the face of the Bishop of the Diocese where I live, and know but very few men in his Diocese that ever did see him.
Heb. 13. 8, 17, 24. Remember them which have the rule over you, which have spoken to you the word of God. Obey them that have the Rule over you, and submit your selves, for they watch for your souls as they that must give account. So that a Church was no bigger than the Bishops could speak the word of God to, and could watch for their souls. But I never saw the face of the Bishop of the Diocess where I live, and know but very few men in his Diocess that ever did see him.
2. And this care was to extend to the particular persons of the Flocks. Act. 20. 20, 28, 31. I taught you publicly, and from house to house. Take heed to your selves, and to all the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Bishops, to f•ed (or rule) the Church of God, &c. Remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
2. And this care was to extend to the particular persons of the Flocks. Act. 20. 20, 28, 31. I taught you publickly, and from house to house. Take heed to your selves, and to all the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Bishops, to f•ed (or rule) the Church of God, &c. Remembor that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.