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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. 13. Argument 4. Those Pastors that have Presbyters ⟨p. 202⟩under them, have power of Ordination: But very many English Pastors at this day have Presbyters under them: therefore they have Power of Ordination: By Presbyters I mean not men of another office, but gradually inferior in the sa•e office. The Major is proved ad hominem from the Concessions of the Dissenters: For (though I rarely meet in their disputations for Bishops, with any Definition of a Bishop, yet) This is it that they most commonly give us as the Essential difference of a Bishop, that he is one that is over Presbyters. Yea this ag•eeth with their higher sort of Bishops that they say were in the Church in Ignatius days, when subject Presbyters were instituted: and therefore those Pastors may ordain that are of that higher sort of Bishops.

Sect. 13. Argument 4. Those Pastors that have Presbyters ⟨p. 202⟩under them, have power of Ordination: But very many English Pastors at this day have Presbyters under them: therefore they have Power of O•dination: By Presbyters I mean not men of another office, but gradually inferiour in the sa•e office. The Major is proved ad hominem from the Concessions of the Dissenters: For (though I rarely meet in their disputations for Bishops, with any Definition of a Bishop, yet) This is it that they most commonly give us as the Essential difference of a Bishop, that he is one that is over Presbyters. Yea this ag•eeth with their higher sort of Bishops that they say were in the Church in Ignatius daies, when subject Presbyters were instituted: and therefore those Pastors may ordain that are of that higher sort of Bishops.

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Sect. 14. The Minor is notorious: Many of our Pastors in Market Towns and other large Parishes have a curate with them, in the same Congregation, and one or two or more Curates at several Chapels of ease, that are in the Parish. And these are under them 1. De facto, being chosen and brought in by them, Ruled by them, and paid by them and removed by them. 2. De jure, the Bishops and Laws of the Land allowed this.

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