A69533:724

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. 16. And the Minor is notorious: For 1. In the most of our ordered Churches there is a Presbytery of Ruling Ecclesiastic Elders. 2. In many there are divers preaching Presbyters (which may satisfy them that are against mere ruling Elders) as I showed before. And if these be not inferior to the chief Pastor in Ecclesiastical Degree, yet they are his Compresbyters, and he is (in all Parishes that I know where Curates or Assistants are) their stated President or Moderator, so that we have in all such Congregations (according to the doctrine of the Bishops ⟨p. 203⟩themselves) not only such Bishops as were in the Apostles days when there was no subject Presbyters, but also such Bishops as were in Ignatius days, when the fixed President or Bishop had many Presbyters, to whom he was the President or Moderator.

Sect. 16. And the Minor is notorious: For 1. In the most of our ordered Churches there is a Presbyterie of Ruling Ecclesiastick Elders. 2. In many there are divers preaching Presbyters (which may satisfie them that are against meer ruling Elders) as I shewed before. And if these be not inferiour to the chief Pastor in Ecclesiastical Degree, yet they are his Compresbyters, and he is (in all Parishes that I know where Curates or Assistants are) their stated President or Moderator, so that we have in all such Congregations (according to the doctrine of the Bishops ⟨p. 203⟩themselves) not only such Bishops as were in the Apostles days when there was no subject Presbyters, but also such Bishops as were in Ignatius daies, when the fixed President or Bishop had many Presbyters, to whom he was the President or Moderator.

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Sect. 17. Yea if you will make his Negative voice Essential to a Bishop (which Moderate Episcopal men deny) yet commonly this agreeth to such Parish Bishops as have Curates under them: For in the Presbytery they have ordinarily a Negative Voice.

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