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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
3. If a Bishop be described by being over a Church compounded of divers Parish Churches, (or ⟨p. 211⟩Congregations that have Altars) there can none such be proved to be in the world for about two hundred years after Christ, (besides Apostles and Itinerants, whose Province was indefinite and not a particular Church) not of long after saving at Rome and Alexandria. There was none such when Ignatius's Epistles were written.
4. But if the chief or only Pastor of a single Church (that hath unum altar) yea of a City Church, be to be called a Bishop, then multitudes now called mere Presbyters have been such Bishops, and have ordained.
4. But if the chief or only Pastor of a single Church (that hath unum altare) yea of a City Church, be to be called a Bishop, then multitudes now called meer Presbyters have been such Bishops, and have ordained.
And as to a Negative Vote in ordaining, that (if it were proved it self) proveth no distinct order or office, but for order-sake a prerogative in the same office. The question is yet undecided even among Schoolmen and Bishops, whether a Bishop and Presbyter differ only Grad• (as the foreman from the rest of the Jury, or a Justice of Quorum or a chief Judge or Justice, from the rest) or also Ordine or Specie, (as a Justice and a Constable.) Saith Arch-bishop Usher with Bishop Reignolds and many other Bishops, Ad ordinem pertinet ordinare; and they are ejusdem ordinis; which others deny.
And as to a Negative Vote in ordaining, that (if it were proved it self) proveth no distinct order or office, but for order-sake a prerogative in the same office. The question is yet undecided even among Schoolmen and Bishops, whether a Bishop and Presbyter differ only Grad (as the foreman from the rest of the Jury, or a Justice of Quorum or a chief Judge or Justice, from the rest) or also Ordine or Specie, (as a Justice and a Constable.) Saith Arch-bishop Vsher with Bishop Reignolds and many other Bishops, Ad ordinem pertinet ordinare; and they are ejusdem ordinis; which others deny.