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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. 15. But though Confirmation be a duty, yet none but Bishops have power to do it: and therefore it is not a lawful thing for Presbyters to attempt it.
Object. 15. But though Confirmation be a duty, yet none but Bishops have power to do it: and therefore it is not a lawfull thing for Presbyters to attempt it.
Answ. 11. What mean you by Bishops? It is a word that hath, by mens application, got so many significations, that we may well expect that you give us the Definition of a Bishop, before you make him the matter of your Dispute. And yet I have read so many Books that Dispute for Episcopy, and so few that tells us what they ⟨p. 257⟩mean by it; that I must needs say, that most of them lose their labour, with such as I. If by a Bishop you mean, such as our English Bishops were, or any fixed Pastor of many particular Churches, I deny that such were ever Instituted by Christ, much less have they the sole Power of such administrations.
Answ. 11. What mean you by Bishops? It is a word that hath, by mens application, got so many significations, that we may well expect that you give us the Definition of a Bishop, before you make him the matter of your Dispute. And yet I have read so many Bookes that Dispute for Episcopy, and so few that tels us what they ⟨p. 257⟩mean by it; that I must needs say, that most of them lose their labour, with such as I. If by a Bishop you mean, such as our English Bishops were, or any fixed Pastour of many particular Churches, I deny that such were ever Instituted by Christ, much less have they the sole Power of such administrations.