A33359:195
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Must there needs be a Diocesan Church there because the Catechists did advance Religion not a little?
The next concerning Dionysius his Church meeting at Chebron (Cephro it should be) and Coluthio, is already fully answered, as it is offered with better improvement than our Examiner gives itg. It cannot easily be apprehended how a larger Church meeting with Dionysius, made up of those banished with him, and others from several parts of Egypt, at Cephro, a Village in Libya, a distinct Province; should prove that he had a Diocesan Church in Alexandria, to any, but those who are very inclinable to believe it without proof. Nor will others understand that Dionysius is better proved to be a Diocesan by the Christians which came from Alexandria to Coluthio in Mareotes; (there being none there besides) for the Believers in Alexandria it self, were no more than one Church could hold, as Valesius collects ⟨p. 54⟩from this very place to our Examiners regret, Ex hoc loco colligitur, aetate quidem Dionysii, unicam adhuc fuisse Alexandriae Ecclesiam, in quam omnes Urbis illius fideles, Orationis causâ, conveniebanth.
The next concerning Dionysius his Church meeting at Chebron (Cephro it should be) and Coluthio, is already fully answered, as it is offered with better improvement than our Examiner gives itg. It cannot easily be apprehended how a larger Church meeting with Dionysius, made up of those banished with him, and others from several parts of Egypt, at Cephro, a Village in Lybia, a distinct Province; should prove that he had a Diocesan Church in Alexandria, to any, but those who are very inclinable to believe it without proof. Nor will others understand that Dionysius is better proved to be a Diocesan by the Christians which came from Alexandria to Coluthio in Mareotes; (there being none there besides) for the Believers in Alexandria it self, were no more than one Church could hold, as Valesius collects