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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

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Assert. Those who nullify our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 7: The Ordination used now in England and in other Protestant Churches, is Valid, and agree…Assert. Those who nullifie our present Ministry and Churches, which… › Chapter 7: The Ordination used now in England and in other Protestant Churches, is Valid, and agre…

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Sect 4. The Major is asserted at large by the foresaid […] Dr. H. H. Annot. in Art. 11. b. p. 407. Where he shows […] though this title of [Greek or Hebrew] Elders have been also […] second Order in the Church, & is now only in use for them, under […] name of Presbyters, yet in the Scripture times, it belonged prince pally if not only to Bishops, there being no evidence that any of […] second order were then instituted —] So that the Scripture Bishops were the Pastors of single Churches having no Presbyters under them; for there were no inferior Presbyters (that had not the Power of Ordination) instituted in those times. This therefore may be taken as a granted truth.

Sect 4. The Major is asserted at large by the foresaid 〈…〉 Dr. H. H. Annot. in Art. 11. b. p. 407. Where he shews 〈…〉 though this title of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Elders have been also 〈…〉 second Order in the Church, & is now only in use for them, under 〈…〉 name of Presbyters, yet in the Scripture times, it belonged princ• pally if not only to Bishops, there being no evidence that any of 〈…〉 second order were then instituted —] So that the Scripture Bishops were the Pastors of single Churches having no Presbyters under them; for there were no inferiour Presbyters (that had not the Power of Ordination) instituted in those times. This therefore may be taken as a granted truth.

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Sect. 5. And that our Ordainers are such, is commonly known: 1. They are Pastors: (it is but few of the Prelates that denied this:) They are ^*Rectors of the People, and have the Pastoral charge of souls. 2. They are Pastors of Particular Churches. 3. They have (for the most part at least) no subject or inferior Presbyters under them: therefore they are Scripture Bishops.

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