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Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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to have been done and passed by the Act of the Presbyters of those Churches — And which is of later date, the Excommunication of Andronicus in S•nesius 57. Epist. I find reported to have passed in the same sort, and all this agreeable to the practice recorded in Scripture] alleging, 1. Tim. 5.19. Acts 21.18. citing Cyprian Ep. 46. and the Apost. Constit. and saith, Bloudell in this might have spared his exact diligence, it being granted, &c. Mr. Thorndike also tells us pag. 62. of the words of Ninius, that [in Ireland alone, Saint Patrick at the first plantation of Christianity founded three hundred and threescore and five Bishoprics] And can any man believe that all these had Cities or more then one of our Parish Churches, when all Ireland to this day hath not seven Cities? and when all this was done at the first plantation of the Gospel? I think we had this sort of Episcopacy. Even since the Reformation there is reckoned in Ireland but four Arch-bishops, nineteen Bishops. What think you then were 365. Bishops at the first plantation of the Gospel?
to have been done and passed by the Act of the Presbyters of those Churches — And which is of later date, the Excommunication of Andronicus in S•nesius 57. Epist. I find reported to have passed in the same sort, and all this agreeable to the practice recorded in Scripture] alledging, 1. Tim. 5.19. Acts 21.18. citing Cyprian Ep. 46. and the Apost. Constit. and saith, Bloudell in this might have spared his exact diligence, it being granted, &c. Mr. Thorndike also tells us pag. 62. of the words of Ninius, that [in Ireland alone, Saint Patrick at the first plantation of Christianity founded three hundred and threescore and five Bishopricks] And can any man believe that all these had Cities or more then one of our Parish Churches, when all Ireland to this day hath not seven Cities? and when all this was done at the first plantation of the Gospel? I think we had this sort of Episcopacy. Even since the Reformation there is reckoned in Ireland but four Arch-bishops, nineteen Bishops. What think you then were 365. Bishops at the first plantation of the Gospel?