A27066:74
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
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.
9. Episcopacy is Apostolical, and of Divine Institution.
Christian Directory, Cases Ecclesiastical. Q. 56. p. 127.
Having proved the particular Orders of Presbyters and Deacons, he gives his Reasons for a larger Episcopacy, as the Margin shows;
Having proved the particular Orders of Presbyters and Deacons, he gives his Reasons for a larger Episcopacy, as the Margin shews;
Besides this, says he, in the Apostles days there were under Christ in the universal Church many general Officers, that had the care of governing and overseeing ⟨p. 27⟩Churches up and down, and were fixed by stated relation, to none. Such were the Apostles, Evangelists, and many of their Helpers in their days. And most Christian Churches think, that though the Apostolical, extraordinary Gifts, Privileges, and Offices cease, yet Government being an ordinary part of their work, the same Forms of Government which Christ and the Holy Ghost did settle in the first Age, were settled for all following Ages, though not with the same extraordinary Gifts and Adjuncts.