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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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The Women he will not admit; but was it ever known that such a great and solemn Assembly for Worship consisted only of Men? Were not the Women in Communion with Athanasius's Christians, that they must be left out, when he says all the Catholics met? Can all be truly said to assemble when the far greater part (Women, Children and his many more) were absent? Are not the Women in the Primitive Church often noted for such Zeal for the Worship of Christ, as made them contemn far greater dangers, than here they had any cause to be apprehensive of? The supposed danger was either from the Crowd or the Tumult. For the former, did the Women and many more never come to Christian Assemblies, when there was any danger of being crowded? I think there was as great danger from a crowd in Basiliscus his Reign, when the whole City of C. P. is said to have met together in a Church with the Emperor, but yet the Women stayed not behind but crowded in with the men, as Theodorus Lector reports it, [Greek or Hebrew]i. Besides Athanasius here signifies the danger of a crowd was in the lesser Churches, (not in this) ⟨p. 44⟩where they could not meet but [Greek or Hebrew], and so defers their assembling together in the great Church as better.
The Women he will not admit; but was it ever known that such a great and solemn Assembly for Worship consisted only of Men? Were not the Women in Communion with Athanasius's Christians, that they must be left out, when he sayes all the Catholicks met? Can all be truly said to assemble when the farr greater part (Women, Children and his many more) were absent? Are not the Women in the Primitive Church often noted for such Zeal for the Worship of Christ, as made them contemn far greater dangers, than here they had any cause to be apprehensive of? The supposed danger was either from the Crowd or the Tumult. For the former, did the Women and many more never come to Christian Assemblies, when there was any danger of being crowded? I think there was as great danger from a crowd in Basiliscus his Reign, when the whole City of C. P. is said to have met together in a Church with the Emperour, but yet the Women stayed not behind but crowded in with the men, as Theodorus Lector reports it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉i