Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times

As for the Tumults (which might have been concealed in a Vindication of the primitive Church) if there was any thing tumultuous, it was over when Athanasius had complied with their desires to meet in the great Church. And so no apprehension of danger left to women, or any else, upon this account.

As for the Tumults (which might have been concealed in a Vindication of the primitive Church) if there was any thing tumultuous, it was over when Athanasius had complyed with their desires to meet in the great Church. And so no apprehension of danger left to women, or any else, upon this account.

And even those that did assemble there were too many for one Congregation, and was an assembly more for Solemnity and Ostentation than for Personal Communion in Worship, and the proper ends of a religious Assembly.

Here he runs as cross, to the great Athanasius and the account which he gives of this Assembly as if he had studied it, debasing that as more for Ostentation than for Personal Communion in Worship, and the proper ends of a Religious Assembly, which Athanasius highly commends both for the more desirable communion which the Christians had there in Worship, and for the greater efficacy of it as to the proper ends of a Religious Assembly. Let any one view the passages ^kand judge. He sets forth the harmony, and concurrence of the multitude in worship with one voice. He prefers it before their assemblies, when dispersed in little places, and not only because the unanimity of the multitude was herein more apparent, but because God would sooner hear them, [Greek or Hebrew]. For if, says he, according to our Saviour's promise, where two shall agree concerning anything it shall be done for them by my Father, &c. how prevalent will be the one voice of so numerous a people, assembled together and saying Amen to God? and more to that purpose, by which we may perceive, Athanasius being Judge, how true is it that this Assembly was more for