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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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When he hath granted all that I designed, that this part was destitute of Inhabitants, and more too, that it was destroyed, yet he would have the City no less, no necessity of this, says he, sure we are not yet awake? can a City loose [Greek or Hebrew], in the Historian's words, a 4th. yea, or a third part of its largeness, and yet not be so much the less? He hath nothing to salve this, but it may be, and it might be, ⟨p. 48⟩groundless surmises, without either reason or authority.
When he hath granted all that I designed, that this part was destitute of Inhabitants, and more too, that it was destroyed, yet he would have the City no less, no necessity of this, sayes he, sure we are not yet awake? can a City loose 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in the Historian's words, a 4th. yea, or a third part of its largeness, and yet not be so much the less? He hath nothing to salve this, but it may be, and it might be, ⟨p. 48⟩groundless surmises, without either reason or authority.
They might enlarge upon another quarter, being it may be forbid to build Bruchium—they might dwell closer than before, and so their multitude be undiminished.
They might inlarge upon another quarter, being it may be forbid to build Bruchium—they might dwell closer than before, and so their multitude be undiminisht.
How far it is from being true, that their multitude was undiminished; and how needless either to enlarge—or to dwell closer, may soon appear. The multitude must needs be much diminished in such a War, and a close siege of many years continuance, for so it is reported both by Eusebius and Jerome; and it was much wasted