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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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.
And for ought that I can perceive, Diocesan Episcopacy was unknown in this Nation, for several hundreds of Years after Christ Jesus. The Culdees were the great Preachers of the Gospel, and Promoters of Christianity in Scotland. Those Culdees were no Bishops, nor had any Ordination, but such as was performed by the Monk, or Abbot of the Monastery, in the Island Hii. This Monk (who was himself no Bishop) and his Pressters gave them their Orders; and from thence came Aidan and Finan into England, and are called Bishops; but had no other Ordination, than that abovementioned. Wini was the first Canonical Bishop in Britain, as Bede reports. Non erat tunc ullus excepto Wini in tot a Britannia Canonice Ordinatus Episcopus. Lib. 3. cap. 28. Which was near Six hundred Years after Christ.
The Prefecture and Jurisdiction of Bishops in England, seems to me of Humane Institution, and derived partly from the Favour of Princes, and partly from the Usurpation of the Pope; and thus gotten, and obtained, they enjoyed and exercised it for many Hundreds of Years, even till the days of Henry the Eighth; who reassuming the Authority that had been granted by former Princes, and usurped by the Pope, obliged them to acknowledge their Jurisdiction, by derivation from Himself; and subjected them to a Premunire, in case of refusal: And of this Opinion those Bishops seem to be, that took Commissions from K. Henry the Eighth, and K. Edward the Sixth, for their holding their Bishoprics, and Exercise of their Jurisdiction; as I have signified already.
The Prefecture and Jurisdiction of Bishops in England, seems to me of Humane Institution, and derived partly from the Favour of Princes, and partly from the Usurpation of the Pope; and thus gotten, and obtained, they enjoyed and exercised it for many Hundreds of Years, even till the days of Henry the Eighth; who reassuming the Authority that had been granted by former Princes, and usurped by the Pope, obliged them to acknowledg their Jurisdiction, by derivation from Himself; and subjected them to a Premunire, in case of refusal: And of this Opinion those Bishops seem to be, that took Commissions from K. Henry the Eighth, and K. Edward the Sixth, for their holding their Bishopricks, and Exercise of their Jurisdiction; as I have signified already.