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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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But good Brother, what Episcopacy is it you mean? if you mean only Episcopus Praeses, I am of your opinion, it was the government in the Apostles time when Elders in a particular Church were multiplied: And if we would but exercise more meekness and patience one with another, Consult the Scriptures more attentively, we shall find that the true Government and Constitution of the Church takes in something of Episcopacy, something of Presbytery, something of Independency.
But good Brother, what Episcopacy is it you mean? if you mean only Episcopus Praeses, I am of your opinion, it was the government in the Apostles time when Elders in a particular Church were multiplied: And if we would but exercise more meekness and patience one with another, Consult the Scriptures more attentively, we shall find that the true Government and Constitution of the Church takes in somthing of Episcopacy, somthing of Presbytery, something of Independency.
But Sir, if you mean Episcopus Princeps, (which is our ⟨p. 104⟩Case) one that hath a Superiority of power above Presbyters, with which these must not meddle, and this Bishop such large Diocese as ours are, and this Bishop also the Sole Pastor over the Diocese, as Bishop Morley checking Mr. Baxter, tells him, that the Bishop of Worcester, and not Mr. Baxter, is Pastor of Kidderminster, as well as of all other Parochial Churches in that Diocese, pag. 2. Sir, this Episcopacy you and Mr. Noyes have to prove, that it was ever in the Apostles time, or of Christs Institution, for this we utterly deny.
But Sir, if you mean Episcopus Princeps, (which is our ⟨p. 104⟩Case) one that hath a Superiority of power above Presbyters, with which these must not meddle, and this Bishop such large Diocess as ours are, and this Bishop also the Sole Pastor over the Diocess, as Bishop Morley checking Mr. Baxter, tells him, that the Bishop of Worcester, and not Mr. Baxter, is Pastor of Kidderminster, as well as of all other Parochial Churches in that Diocess, pag. 2. Sir, this Episcopacy you and Mr. Noyes have to prove, that it was ever in the Apostles time, or of Christs Institution, for this we utterly deny.