A33359:262
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.
But Cornelius says in the same Epistle that the people of his Church were innumerable. True, that is, according to the frequent use of the word, very many (it is granted they were more than in any other Church) as when Dio says the Nations conquered by Trajan were innumerable, and Socrates expresses those wounded in the fight between the Christians and Heathen in Alexandria about the demolishing of an Idol Temple were [Greek or Hebrew]m, which in Sozomen is but manyn; and another ancient Author says there were innumerable Bishops in Africa, which yet this Gentleman can easily count, and tells us that Schismatics and all were but 466o. M. B. may allow him what he falls short in this reckoning, which is more than half, and may grant there were many more hundreds of Christians in Rome than any of these innumerables come to, and yet make good what he supposes.
But Cornelius sayes in the same Epistle that the people of his Church were innumerable. True, that is, according to the frequent use of the word, very many (it is granted they were more than in any other Church) as when Dio sayes the Nations conquered by Trajan were innumerable, and Socrates expresses those wounded in the fight between the Christians and Heathen in Alexandria about the demolishing of an Idol Temple were 〈non-Latin alphabet〉m, which in Sozomen is but manyn; and another antient Author sayes there were innumerable Bishops in Africa, which yet this Gentleman can easily count, and tells us that Schismaticks and all were but 466o. M. B. may allow him what he falls short in this reckoning, which is more than half, and may grant there were many more hundreds of Christians in Rome than any of these innumerables come to, and yet make good what he supposes.
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