A27050:932
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.
5. I need not prove that the Bishops then were the Masters of the Assemblies, and called them, appointing time and place, as the Rulers of the Synagogues did: which showeth that they were present with the Church Assemblies.
5. I need not prove that the Bishops then were the Masters of the Assemblies, and called them, appointing time and place, as the Rulers of the Synagogues did: which sheweth that they were present with the Church Assemblies.
6. The Bishops administered the Lords Supper (as all confess) and therefore must have some Pastoral notice of the fitness of all the Church to receive it: which intimateth sufficiently the extent of the Church.
6. The Bishops administred the Lords Supper (as all confess) and therefore must have some Pastoral notice of the fitness of all the Church to receive it: which intimateth sufficiently the extent of the Church.
7. They went before the Assemblies usually in performance of the public worship: They prayed with them, and praised God: And Doctor Hammond thinks that in all this in Scripture times, they had not so much as a Presbyter to assist them.
7. They went before the Assemblies usually in performance of the publick worship: They prayed with them, and praised God: And Doctor Hammond thinks that in all this in Scripture times, they had not so much as a Presbyter to assist them.