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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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But Sir, if you mean Episcopus Princeps, (which is our ⟨p. 104⟩Case) one that hath a Superiority of power above Presbyters, with which these must not meddle, and this Bishop such large Diocese as ours are, and this Bishop also the Sole Pastor over the Diocese, as Bishop Morley checking Mr. Baxter, tells him, that the Bishop of Worcester, and not Mr. Baxter, is Pastor of Kidderminster, as well as of all other Parochial Churches in that Diocese, pag. 2. Sir, this Episcopacy you and Mr. Noyes have to prove, that it was ever in the Apostles time, or of Christs Institution, for this we utterly deny.
But Sir, if you mean Episcopus Princeps, (which is our ⟨p. 104⟩Case) one that hath a Superiority of power above Presbyters, with which these must not meddle, and this Bishop such large Diocess as ours are, and this Bishop also the Sole Pastor over the Diocess, as Bishop Morley checking Mr. Baxter, tells him, that the Bishop of Worcester, and not Mr. Baxter, is Pastor of Kidderminster, as well as of all other Parochial Churches in that Diocess, pag. 2. Sir, this Episcopacy you and Mr. Noyes have to prove, that it was ever in the Apostles time, or of Christs Institution, for this we utterly deny.
The Presidential Episcopacy (as I may term it) lasted, as it is conceived by Learned men, till the middle of the second Century, or towards the end of it: your self does not deny it. Iren. pag. 275, 276.
But for this Princely Episcopacy, when that began to be set up, then began the Degeneracy of the Apostolical Government.