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Five disputations of church-government and worship

Name: Five disputations of church-government and worship
Author: Richard Baxter

Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659

[10], 38, [10], 24, 492 p. · 215k words · Wing B1267 · ESTC R13446

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AN Episcopacy Desirable for the Reformation, Preservation, and Peac… › Chapter 5: Objections against the Presidency forementioned, answered.

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§. 8. And I wou•d know whether you can prove that it is Essential to a Bishop to have more Churches or Parishes then one? Prove it if you are able. Was not great Gregory of Naocesarea a ⟨p. 319⟩Bishop with his seventeen souls? And was not Alexander (the Collier) whom he Ordained at Comana, a Bishop, though but of a small Assembly? Do not some of you confess, that Bishops in Scripture-times had no subject Presbyters, and consequently had but a single Congregation? If then a Parish or Congregational Bishop were a true Bishop, why may he not be so still?

§. 8. And I wou•d know whether you can prove that it is Essential to a Bishop to have more Churches or Parishes then one? Prove it if you are able. Was not great Gregory of Naocesarea a ⟨p. 319⟩Bishop with his seventeen souls? And was not Alexander (the Colliar) whom he Ordained at Comana, a Bishop, though but of a small Assembly? Do not some of you confess, that Bishops in Scripture-times had no subject Presbyters, and consequently had but a single Congregation? If then a Parish or Congregational Bishop were a true Bishop, why may he not be so still?

:1083p. 319¶9

§. 9. Object. 2. But the Church under Christian Princes should not be conformed to the model of the Church under persecution: Shall Bishops have no more power and honour now then they had then? We see in Constantine's days a change was made. Must they be tied to a Parish now, because they were Bishops only of a Parish in Scripture-times?

§. 9. Object. 2. But the Church under Christian Princes should not be conformed to the model of the Church under persecution: Shall Bishops have no more power and honour now then they had then? We see in Constantines dayes a change was made. Must they be tyed to a Parish now, because they were Bishops only of a Parish in Scripture-times?

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