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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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And hence came it to be the note of a Schism, to set up Altar contra Altar because one Bishop and Church had but one Altar. Mr. Mede (no injudicious nor Factions man) saw this, and asserteth it from the plain words of Ignatius.
And hence came it to be the note of a Schism, to set up Altare contra Altare because one Bishop and Church had but one Altar. Mr. Mede (no injudicious nor Factions man) saw this, and asserteth it from the plain words of Ignatius.
§. 32. How the case came to be altered it is easy to know: But whether it was well or ill done, is all the controversy, or the chief.
§. 32. How the case came to be altered it is easie to know: But whether it was well or ill done, is all the controversie, or the chief.
I confess there want not some that think that the Apostles had their several assigned Provinces, and that they left them to twelve Successors, and this is the foundation of Patriarchal or Provincial Churches, with such unproved Dreams: 1. We doubt not but that the Apostles wisely distributed their Labours: But we believe not that they divided the Countries into their several Dioceses, or Provinces: nor that two of them (e. g John and Paul, Peter and Paul, James and other Apostles) might ⟨p. 12⟩not and did not do the work of an Apostle in the same Country and City. Much less do we believe that one of them (e. g. James at Jerusalem, whether an Apostle or not I contend not) was a Bishop over the Apostles when they resided there.
I confess there want not some that think that the Apostles had their several assigned Provinces, and that they left them to twelve Successours, and this is the foundation of Patriarchal or Provincial Churches, with such unproved Dreams: 1. We doubt not but that the Apostles wisely distributed their Labours: But we believe not that they divided the Countreys into their several Dioceses, or Provinces: nor that two of them (e. g Iohn and Paul, Peter and Paul, Iames and other Apostles) might