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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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He tells us of 950 Work-houses whose rents were allowed to defray the Funeral expenses of all that died in the City (for so it is expressed in the Constitution, [Greek or Hebrew]w) these being performed with great solemnity, and multitudes of Attendants maintained by those rents for that purposex. How this here makes the Christians in C. P. to be so very numerous as he would have them, he should have showed us; I am not yet so sagacious, as to discover it. The number of the Decani was determined by Honorius to 950y. Our Author thinks it probable they were so many at the first establishment, but there's more ground to believe, they were much fewer in Constantine's time; for about 800 were counted sufficient in Justinian's Reign, 200 years after, when the City was both larger, and much more populous and in its greatest flourishz. Those that consider the premisses, may well think, he might have formed his conclusion in terms less confident, to say no worse of it.
He tells us of 950 Work-houses whose rents were allowed to defray the Funeral expences of all that died in the City (for so it is expressed in the Constitution, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉w) these being performed with great solemnity, and multitudes of Attendants maintained by those rents for that purposex. How this here makes the Christians in C. P. to be so very numerous as he would have them, he should have shewed us; I am not yet so sagacious, as to discover it. The number of the Decani was determined by Honorius to 950y. Our Author thinks it probable they were so many at the first establishment, but there's more ground to believe, they were much fewer in Constantine's time; for about 800 were counted sufficient in Justinian's Reign, 200 years after, when the City was both larger, and much more populous and in its greatest flourish