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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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WE are of the judgement That the form of Government here proposed is not in any point repugnant to the Scripture; and that the Suffragans mentioned in the second Proposition, may lawfully use the power both of Jurisdiction and Ordination, according to the Word of God, and the practice of the ancient Church.
Ja. Armachanus. Rich. Holdsworth.
After the proposal of this, An. 1641. Many Queries were made, and doubts in point of conscience resolved by the Primate, divers passages of which he heth left under his own hand, showing his pious endeavours to peace and unity, which how far it then prevailed, is out of season now to relate, only I wish it might yet be thought of to the repairing of the breach, which this division hath made, and that those, who are by their Office Messengers of Peace, and whose first word to cach house should be peace, would earnestly promote it, within the walls of their Mother-Church, wherein they were educated, and not thus by contending about circumstantials lose the substance, and make our selves a prey to the adversary of both, who rejoice in their hearts, saying, So would we have it.
AFter the proposal of this, An. 1641. Many Quaeries were made, and doubts in point of conscience resolved by the Primate, divers passages of which he heth left under his own hand, shewing his pious endeavours to peace and unity, which how far it then prevailed, is out of season now to relate, only I wish it might yet be thought of to the repairing of the breach, which this division hath made, and that those, who are by their Office Messengers of Peace, and whose first word to cach house should be peace, would earnestly promote it, within the walls of their Mother-Church, wherein they were educated, and not thus by contending about circumstantials lose the substance, and make our selves a prey to the adversary of both, who rejoyce in their hearts, saying, So would we have it.