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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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4ly, It is no Argument to prove a Diocesan Church to show that it consists of such who live at a good distance one from another. Dionysius had a great Congregation at Cephro, a Village in Libya, but those which made up this Church were of another Country, coming partly from Alexandria, partly from other parts of Egypt, as Eusebius shows us, yet none ever esteemed that to be a Diocesan Church. In Justin Martyr's time those that were in the Country, and those that were in the City, when those were no more than made one Congregation, met together in one place, [Greek or Hebrew], the Meeting consisted of such as lived at a good distance, but none will imagine it to be a Diocesan Church, but those who will have a single Congregation to be such a Church. All the Christians in City and Country, says Dr. Downham, if they had been assembled together, would have made but a small Congregation.w.
4ly, It is no Argument to prove a Diocesan Church to shew that it consists of such who live at a good distance one from another. Dionysius had a great Congregation at Cephro, a Village in Lybia, but those which made up this Church were of another Countrey, coming partly from Alexandria, partly from other parts of Egypt, as Eusebius shews us, yet none ever esteemed that to be a Diocesan Church. In Justin Martyr's time those that were in the Countrey, and those that were in the City, when those were no more than made one Congregation, met together in one place, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Meeting consisted of such as lived at a good distance, but none will imagine it to be a Diocesan Church, but those who will have a single Congregation to be such a Church. All the Christians in City and Countrey, says Dr. Downham, if they had been assembled together, would have made but a small Congregation.w.
- wDefence l. 2. c. 4. p. 69.