A27050:935
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.
8. They admonished the unruly and disorderly, and received Accusations, and openly reproved and excommunicated the Impenitent. And O, how great a work is it to deal with one Soul aright as must be done, before it cometh to Excommunication! Much more with all in a Parish. Much more in many hundred Parishes.
9. It is confessed that it was the Bishops work to absolve the penitent publicly. And then he must judge of their Repentance: and then he must try it: And for how many thousand can a Bishop do this, with the rest?
9. It is confessed that it was the Bishops work to absolve the penitent publickly. And then he must judge of their Repentance: and then he must try it: And for how many thousand can a Bishop do this, with the rest?
10. The Bishop did dismiss the Congregation with a Benediction (as is maintained by those that we dispute with) and therefore must be present in it.