A33359:142
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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Now suppose that all the Christians in Alexandria, the Catholics at leastwise, could meet together in that great Church, yet all the Diocese could not.
Now suppose that all the Christians in Alexandria, the Catholicks at leastwise, could meet together in that great Church, yet all the Diocess could not.
All that was undertaken to be proved by the passage in question, was, that the main body of Christians in Alexandria adhering to Athanasius could, and did meet in that one Church. If this be granted nothing is denied that he intended to prove. As for a Diocese in the ⟨p. 40⟩Country, if he will show us what, or where it was, and that it had no other Bishop in it, he will do something that may be considered; yet nothing at all against what this Testimony was made use of to evince.
All that was undertaken to be proved by the passage in question, was, that the main body of Christians in Alexandria adhereing to Athanasius could, and did meet in that one Church. If this be granted nothing is denied that he intended to prove. As for a Diocess in the ⟨p. 40⟩Countrey, if he will shew us what, or where it was, and that it had no other Bishop in it, he will do something that may be considered; yet nothing at all against what this Testimony was made use of to evince.
He says 2dly, Suppose this great great Church could receive all the multitude, yet if that multitude was too great for Personal Communion it is insignificant.