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Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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And I believe if Bishops had a whole Diocese of two hundred or three hundred or a thousand Presbyters to maintain, they would be loth to stand to the fifty eighth Canon which makes them Murderers if they supply not their Clergies wants: But let that Canon pass as spurious.
And I believe if Bishops had a whole Diocesse of two hundred or three hundred or a thousand Presbyters to maintain, they would be loth to stand to the fifty eighth Canon which makes them Murderers if they supply not their Clergies wants: But let that Canon pass as spurious.
And long after when Concilium Vasense doth grant leave to the Presbyters to preach, and Deacons to read Homilies in Country ⟨p. 100⟩Parishes as well as Cities, it shows that such Parishes were but new and imperfect Assemblies.
And long after when Concilium Vasense doth grant leave to the Presbyters to preach, and Deacons to read Homilies in Country ⟨p. 100⟩Parishes as well as Cities, it shews that such Parishes were but new and imperfect Assemblies.
In the Council of Laodicea the 56. Canon is [Non oportet Presbyteros ante ingressum Episcopi ingredi Ecclesiam, & sedere in tribunalibus, sed cum Episcopo ingredi: nisi forte aut aegrotet Episcopus, aut in peregrinationis commodo eum abyss constiterit.] By which it seems that there was but one Assemby in which the Bishop and Presbyters sate together: Otherwise the Presbyters might have gone into all the rest of the Churches without the Bishop at any time, and not only in case of his sickness or peregrination.