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
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3007061
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],170;152,177-233,[3]p. . 4to.. Imperfect: the [2] p. of advertisements are bound in at the end; in this copy the pagination is as follows: [16], 112, 233, [5] p.. Provenance: Title page inscribed: "Wm. Conyngham empt: Londini 3d Dec. 89". With a few manuscript notes in the same hand.. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf binding; paper spine label.
Makers and roles
Richard Baxter (1615-1691).