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Ge?konoklástys@, in Answer to a Book [by J. Gauden] Intitled, Ge?k?n Basiliký, With Many Enlargements, by R. Baron, With a Preface, to Which Is
Gekonoklstys in Answer to a Book Intitled Gekn Basilik With Many Enlargements by R Baron With a Preface to Which Is - by J. Gauden Author:John Milton Title: Ge?konoklástys@, in Answer to a Book [by J. Gauden] Intitled, Ge?k?n Basiliký, With Many Enlargements, by R. Baron, With a Preface, to Which Is Added, an Original Letter to Milton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1770 Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origina... more »l. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XIV. U. pon the Covenant. UPON this theme his difcourfe is long, his matter little but repetition, and therefore foon anfwered. Firft, after an abufive and ftrange apprehenfion of covenants, as if men "pawned their fouls" to them with whom they covenant, he digrefies to plead for bifhops ; firft from the antiquity of their " pofleffion here, fince the firft plantation of chriftianity in this ifland ;" next from " a univerfal prefcription fince the Apoftles, till this laft century." But what avails the moft primitive antiquity againft the plain fenfe of Scripture ? which if the laft century have beft followed, it ought in our efteem to be the firft. And yet it hath been often proved by learned men from the writings and epiftles of moft ancient chriftians, that epifco- pacy crept not up into an crder above the prefby- ters, till many years after that the Apoftles were deceafed. He next " is unfatisfied with the covenant," r. ot only for " fome pafiages in it referring to himfelf," as he fuppofes, " with very dubious and dangerous limitations," but for binding men " by oath and covenant" to the reformation of Church-difcipline. Firft, thofe limitations were not more dangerous to him, than he to our liberty and religion j next, that which was there vowed, to caft out of the ChurchChurch an antichriftian hierarchy which God had not planted, but ambition and corruption had brought in, and fofter...« less