A33359:228
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.
The five thousand mentioned chap. 4. ver. 4. he will have to be a new accession to the three thousand before Converted, but should not have been so positive in it without reason. Those who are engaged in the same cause with him (besides many others) are not of his opinion herein, as they would have been if they had seen any ground for it. Dr. Hammond htakes the 5000 to be the number of the Auditory, not of the Converts, Bishop Downham includes the three thousand in those fivei, and the Dean of Paul's makes account but of five thousand in allk. To me it is not material whether they were 5000 or 8000 or many more, seeing there was not the twentieth part of them other than Foreigners, and such as for any thing I can see or hear designed not to dwell at Jerusalem, and so intended not fix themselves in that particular Church. There can be no just reckoning of the numerousness of a Church, from ⟨p. 68⟩an occasional recourse of strangers, who inhabit remote parts or foreign Countries.
The five thousand mention'd chap. 4. ver. 4. he will have to be a new accession to the three thousand before Converted, but should not have been so positive in it without reason. Those who are engaged in the same cause with him (besides many others) are not of his opinion herein, as they would have been if they had seen any ground for it. Dr. Hammond htakes the 5000 to be the number of the Auditory, not of the Converts, Bishop Downham includes the three thousand in those fivei, and the Dean of Paul's makes account but of five thousand in allk. To me it is not material whether they were 5000 or 8000 or many more, seeing there was not the twentieth part of them other than Forreigners, and such as for any thing I can see or hear designed not to dwell at Jerusalem, and so intended not fix themselves in that particular Church. There can be no just reckoning of the numerousness of a Church, from