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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.
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.
That he should say the Scripture gives no countenance to this, is something strange. It is plain in Scripture, that God enjoined the Children of Israel to repair to Jerusalem from all quarters of the Country where they dwelt thrice a year, for the observance of the three great Feasts. And it is apparent also that they were wont to come up to Jerusalem at those Solemnities, both Jews and Proselytes, [Greek or Hebrew]a. And it is evident in that Chapter cited, Acts 2. The Feast of Pentecost being come, there was a resort of Jews and Proselytes from all those parts of the World to this City. Ay, but the Scripture says, all those Strange Nations were inhabitants of Jerusalem.
That he should say the Scripture gives no countenance to this, is something strange. It is plain in Scripture, that God injoyned the Children of Israel to repair to Jerusalem from all quarters of the Countrey where they dwelt thrice a year, for the observance of the three great Feasts. And it is apparent also that they were wont to come up to Jerusalem at those Solemnities, both Jews and Proselytes, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉a. And it is evident in that Chapter cited, Acts 2. The Feast of Pentecost being come, there was a resort of Jews and Proselytes from all those parts of the World to this City. Ay, but the Scripture sayes, all those Strange Nations were inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- aIn Euseb. l. 2. c. 23.