A27050:949
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.
CHAP. IV. The same proved by the Concession of the most Learned Defenders of Diocesan Prelacy.
CHAP. IV. The same proved by the Concession of the most Learned Defenders of Diocesane Prelacy.
Though the Scripture Evidence be most satisfactory in it self, yet in controversy it much easeth the mind that doubteth, to find the Cause fully and expressly granted, by those that most learnedly defend those consequents which it overthrows: And if I do not bring plain Concessions here, I will not deprecate the Readers indignation.
THough the Scripture Evidence be most satisfactory in it self, yet in controversie it much easeth the mind that doubteth, to find the Cause fully and expresly granted, by those that most learnedly defend those consequents which it overthrows: And if I do not bring plain Concessions here, I will not deprecate the Readers indignation.
1. Among all Christians, the Papists are the highest Prelatists; And among1 all Papists the Jesuits; and among all the Jesuits Petavius, who hath written against Salmasius, &c. on this Subject. Petavius, Dissert. Ecclesiast. de Episcop. dignit. & jurisd. p. 22. concludeth his first Chapter in which he had cited the chiefest of the Fathers; [Hactenus igitur ex antiquorum authoritate conficitur primis temporibus, Presbyterorum & Episcoporum non tantum appellationes, sed etiam ordines, in easdem concurrisse personas, iidem ut essent utrique.] i. e. Hitherto it is proved by the Authority of the Ancients, that in the first times, not only the Names, but the Orders, of Presbyters and Bishops did concur into the same persons, so that both were the same men.] And if so, I shall show the consequents anon.