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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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For a further confirmation of which, I shall give you part of a Letter of his, while he was Bishop of Meath, (upon the like intention of a Printer, who had gotten into his hands some Notes of his Sermons, said to be preached by him in London, and was about to publish them) which he wrote to Doctor Featly, Chaplain to the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for the stopping of them, in these words.
I beseech you to use all your power to save me from that disgrace, which undiscreet and covetous men go about to fasten upon me, or else I must be driven to protest against their injurious dealings with me, and say as Donatus once did, Mala illis sit, qui me• festinant edere ante me. ⟨p. 169⟩But I repose confidence in you, that you will take order that so great a wrong as this may not be done unto me. Remember me to worthy Doctor Goad, and forget not in your prayers. Dublin, Sept. 16. 1622. Your most assured loving friend, and fellow labourer JA. MEDENSIS.
I beseech you to use all your power to save me from that disgrace, which undiscreet and covetons men go about to fasten upon me, or else I must be driven to protest against their injurious dealings with me, and say as Donatus once did, Mala illis sit, qui me• festinant edere ante me. ⟨p. 169⟩But I repose cenfidence in you, that you will take order that so great a wrong as this may not be done unto me. Remember me to worthy Doctor Goad, and forget not in your prayers. Dublin, Sept. 16. 1622. Your most assured loving friend, and fellow labourer JA. MEDENSIS.