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Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and ancient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and antient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Diocesan Churches not yet discovered in the Primitive times.
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I might conclude that these were just such Dioceses as our Country Parishes are; and had such Congregations as those Parish Churches have. And some of them in time might have provision (as some of ours have) for more Congregations than one. And if our modern Dioceses were of this proportion, they would be much more conformable to the ancient Models.
I might conclude that these were just such Diocesses as our Countrey Parishes are; and had such Congregations as those Parish Churches have. And some of them in time might have provision (as some of ours have) for more Congregations than one. And if our modern Diocesses were of this proportion, they would be much more conformable to the antient Modells.
Suppose the chief Congregations of Holland had each a Bishop, yet I conceive they would be Diocesans, though those Cities lie very close together.
He might have laid the scene at home, where we are better acquainted, and supposed this of our Country Towns; or of both the chief, and lesser Towns in Holland; if he had designed what would be most parallel. But to take it as it is formed, though those Cities lay not further distant, and had each of them a Bishop, yet if their Churches were governed in common by Bishop and Presbyters, as the ancient Churches were; they would not be Diocesan, but more like the Model of the Churches and Government which Holland hath at present.
He might have laid the scene at home, where we are better acquainted, and supposed this of our Countrey Towns; or of both the chief, and lesser Towns in Holland; if he had designed what would be most parallel. But to take it as it is formed, though those Cities lay not further distant, and had each of them a Bishop, yet if their Churches were governed in common by Bishop and Presbyters, as the antient Churches were; they would not be Diocesan, but more like the Model of the Churches and Government which Holland hath at present.