Argum. 6. THat Episcopacy wh••ch necessarily overwhelmeth the souls of the Bishops with the most hainous guilt, of neglecting the many thousand souls whose charge they undertake, is not to be restored for Order or Peace (For men are not to be ove••whelmed with such hainous sin on such pretences) But such is the English Prelacy: and that not accidentally, through the badness of the men only, but unavoidably through the greatness of their charge, and the Natural Impossibility of their undertaken work. How grievous a thing it is to have the blood of so many thousands charged on ••hem, may soon appear▪ And that man that undertakes himself the Government of two or
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
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- Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
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- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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- 1659.
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- Ordination.
- Liturgics.
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three, or five hundred thousand souls that he never seeth or knoweth, nor can possibly so Govern, but must needs leave it undone (except the shadow of a Government which is com∣mitted to a Lay Chancellor,) doth willfully draw this fearful Guilt upon himself.