A33359:46
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 word plurally expressed is much improved by our Author, he makes out of it diverse Churches, and all these Churches, when yet all these were but one Church, as Socrates himself makes it plain a little beforel; for having related how Constantine ordered a Church to be built near the Oak at Mambre, he adds, that he ordered another Church (not Churches) to be erected at Heliopolis, [Greek or Hebrew]. And to put it past doubt, Eusebius whom the Emperor employed about those structures, and from whom in all likelihood Socrates had the Relation, gives an account but of one Church there founded by the Emperor, which he calls [Greek or Hebrew]m, and that it was furnished with a Bishop, Presbyters and Deacons. So that the Bishop of Heliopolis had but one Church for his Diocese, which our Author should not be so loath to own, since it cannot be proved that at this time one Bishop in an hundred, had more.
The word plurally expressed is much improved by our Author, he makes out of it diverse Churches, and all these Churches, when yet all these were but one Church, as Socrates himself makes it plain a little beforel; for having related how Constantine ordered a Church to be built near the Oak at Mambre, he adds, that he ordered another Church (not Churches) to be erected at Heliopolis, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And to put it past doubt, Eusebius whom the Emperour employ'd about those structures, and from whom in all likelihood Socrates had the Relation, gives an account but of one Church there founded by the Emperour, which he calls 〈non-Latin alphabet〉m, and that it was furnished with a Bishop, Presbyters and Deacons. So that the Bishop of Heliopolis had but one Church for his Diocess, which our Author should not be so loath to own, since it cannot be proved that at this time one Bishop in an hundred, had more.
- lSoc. l. 1. c. 18.