A27068:195
Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly…
Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly their pastors, or bishops over their flocks ... : written by Richard Baxter as an explication of some passages in his former writings, especially his Treatise of episcopacy, misunderstood and misapplied by some, and answering the strongest objections of some of them, especially a book called, Mr. Baxters judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish assemblies, as by law required, and another called, A theological dialogue, or, Catholic communion once more defended, upon mens necessitating importunity / by Richard Baxter.Whether parish congregations be true Christian churches and the capable consenting incumbents, be truly their pastors, or bishops over their flocks ... : written by Richard Baxter as an explication of some passages in his former writings, especially his Treatise of episcopacy, misunderstood and misapplied by some, and answering the strongest objections of some of them, especially a book called, Mr. Baxters judgment and reasons against communicating with the parish assemblies, as by law required, and another called, A theological dialogue, or, Catholick communion once more defended, upon mens necessitating importunity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1684
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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.
And he denied our Presbyters, that were not Diocesans, to be Bishops (both City and Country Presbyters): And consequently that our Parishes were no Churches.
And on these grounds he and Bishop Gunning, and such others, judged Presbyters Ordination null, because they were no Bishops.
And the said Dr. (tho I thought he had been next Petavius, one of the first that had expounded the new Testament Elders, to be all Bishops of several Dioceses) yet tells us that he thought most of his brethren were of his mind herein:
And the said Dr. (tho I thought he had been next Petavius, one of the first that had expounded the new Testament Elders, to be all Bishops of several Diocesses) yet tells us that he thought most of his brethren were of his mind herein:
And when we in Worcestershire formed a Pacificatory Association of the Episcopal, Presbyterians, Independents, and Peace-makers, agreeing lovingly to practice so much in Doctrine, Worship and Discipline as we were for, according to our several principles, forbearing each other in the rest, and Dr. Warmst, and Dr. Tho. Good, being for Bishops, subscribed to it, Dr. Peter Gunning wrote largely against so doing to Dr. Warmstrie, and took him off, upon these aforesaid principles; and they then called their Judgment, the Judgment of the Church of England, and wrote as if the Church had been of their mind, and gone their way.