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Presbyterial ordination vindicated. In a brief and sober discourse concerning episcopacy, as claiming greater…
Presbyterial ordination vindicated. In a brief and sober discourse concerning episcopacy, as claiming greater power, and more eminent offices by divine right, then presbytery. The arguments of the Reverend Bishop Dr Davenant in his determination for such episcopacy are modestly examined. And arguments for the validity of presbyterial ordination added. With a brief discourse concerning imposed forms of prayer, and ceremonies. Written by G.F. minister of the gospel in defence of his own ordination, being questioned, because it was performed by Presbyters.Presbyterial ordination vindicated. In a brief and sober discourse concerning episcopacy, as claiming greater power, and more eminent offices by divine right, then presbyterie. The arguments of the Reverend Bishop Dr Davenant in his determination for such episcopacy are modestly examined. And arguments for the validity of presbyterial ordination added. With a brief discourse concerning imposed forms of prayer, and ceremonies. Written by G.F. minister of the gospel in defence of his own ordination, being questioned, because it was performed by Presbyters.
London: printed for Nathanael Webb, 1660
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As to the Second, I do honour the Fathers in their places. 1. Scripture. 2. Sound Reason. 3. Fathers or Antiquity.
But yet I cannot yield that St. Paul and Ignatius, St. Peter and Chrysostom, should be of equal authority; I am sure you make them but very little different, if any thing less, as will appear after.
But yet I cannot yield that St. Paul and Ignatius, St. Peter and Chrysostome, should be of equal authority; I am sure you make them but very little different, if any thing less, as will appear after.
I am not a man versed in the Fathers as others are, yet some of them (the most ancient) I have read, and in them I find so many strange humane mixtures in the Worship of God, that I cannot yield to this consequence, The Fathers say it, or did it, ergo, It ⟨p. 4⟩is lawful: Much less in this controversy, finding what the holy Ghost hath foretold of an Antichrist that should arise, whom out Godly Bishops before, and Learned Whitaker, with others, have thought and proved to be the Bishop of Rome, though Dr. Hammond and our latter Episcopal Divines, will not have it so: We fear, we fear, &c. [What a pitiful interpretation hath D. Hum. made of 2 Thes. 2. and so of several places of the Revelation, to the end the Bishop of Rome might be spared.] But following worthy Bishops, and the Learned and holy Divines, in their judgment of that Bishop of Rome, I am not so much carried with the sayings not practises of these ancient Bishops in this point, for there must be some preparation made to his rising into that usurped Chair, he came not there persaltum.