A64679:17
The reduction of episcopacy unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient…The reduction of episcopacie unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient…
The reduction of episcopacy unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient church proposed in the year 1641 as an expedient for the prevention of those troubles which afterwards did arise about the matter of church-government / by James Usher ; published by Nicholas Bernard.The reduction of episcopacie unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient church proposed in the year 1641 as an expedient for the prevention of those troubles which afterwards did arise about the matter of church-government / by James Usher ; published by Nicholas Bernard.
London : s.n., 1658
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Whereas by a Statute in the six and twentieth year of King Henry the eighth (revived in the first year of Queen Elizabeth) Suffragans are appointed to be erected in 26 several places of this Kingdom; the number of them might very well be conformed unto the number of the several Rural Deanries into which every Diocese is subdivided; which being done, the Suffragan supplying the place of those, who in the ancient Church were called Chorepiscopi, might every month assemble a Synod of all the Rectors, or Incumbent Pastors within the Precinct, and according to the major part of their voices, conclude all matters that shall be brought into debate before them.
Whereas by a Statute in the six and twentieth year of King Henry the eighth (revived in the first year of Queen Elizabeth) Suffragans are appointed to be erected in 26 several places of this Kingdom; the number of them might very well be conformed unto the number of the several Rural Deanries into which every Diocese is subdivided; which being done, the Suffragan supplying the place of those, who in the ancient Church were called Chorepiscopi, might every moneth assemble a Synod of all the Rectors, or Incumbent Pastors within the Precinct, and according to the major part of their voyces, coclude all matters that shall be brought into debate before them.
To this Synod the Rector and Church-wardens might present such impenitent persons, as by admonitions and suspension from the Sacrament would not be reformed; who if they should still remain contumacious and incorrigible, the sentence of