A treatise of episcopacy; . confuting by scripture, reason, and the churches testimony, that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline, and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism, and persecution. Meditated in the year 1640. when the et cætera Oath was imposed. Written 1671. and cast by. Published 1680, by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity.
Richard Baxter (1615-1691).
Category
Books
Date
1681
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3007060
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],170;152,177-233,[3]p. . 4to.. Imperfect: wanting pp. 153-176 (second count). Annotated on p. 225 in a sixteenth-century hand. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding (rebacked); marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Baxter (1615-1691).