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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 1
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The Custom also of choosing Bishops showeth it, where all the people met and chose him: Yea in Cyprian's time the Exercise of Discipline proveth it, when even in such great Churches as Carthage it was done in the presence of the people, and with their consent.
The Custom also of choosing Bishops sheweth it, where all the people met and chose him: Yea in Cyprian's time the Exercise of Discipline proveth it, when even in such great Churches as Carthage it was done in the presence of the people, and with their consent.
§. 23. The only Churches in the World, that for about 200 years after Christ, if not more, had more than one ordinary Assembly, for Church-Communion, though but like our Parish Chapels, were Rome and Alexandria, as far as I can learn in any History: For that at Jerusalem for all the numbers had no more stated Members than oft met in one place (excepting occasional absents). And I find no reason to believe that ever these two (the chief Cities of the Empire,) had so long more than some London Parishes (which have above sixty thousand souls as is supposed) no nor near (if half) so many. And because elsewhere I have only excepted these two Cities, I will yet add somewhat to show, that even there the case was not as many now imagine.
§. 23. The only Churches in the World, that for about 200 years after Christ, if not more, had more than one ordinary Assembly, for Church-Communion, though but like our Parish Chappels, were Rome and Alexandria, as far as I can learn in any History: For that at Ierusalem for all the numbers had no more stated Members than oft met in one place (excepting occasional absents). And I find no reason to believe that ever these two (the chief Cities of the Empire,) had so long more than some London Parishes (which have above sixty thousand souls as is supposed) no nor near (if half) so many. And because elsewhere I have only excepted these two Cities, I will yet add somewhat to shew, that even there the case was not as many now imagine.