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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 the most reverend and learned father of our Church Dr. James Usher, late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. A true copy set forth by Nicolas Bernard, D.D. preacher to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn occasioned by an imperfect copy lately printed.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 the most reverend and learned father of our Church Dr. James Usher, late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. A true copy set forth by Nicolas Bernard, D.D. preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne occasioned by an imperfect copy lately printed.
London: printed by E.C. for R. Royston, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. Some different words, (as company for community, Primate for Archbishop, form of ordaining Ministers for the Book of Ordination, &c.) as the neglect of that distinction of Characters for the quotations in English, and other passages which were designed by his own hand.
4. Some different words, (as company for community, Primate for Archbishop, forme of ordaining Ministers for the Book of Ordination, &c.) as the neglect of that distinction of Characters for the quotations in English, and other passages which were designed by his own hand.
5. The Postscript is set forth so defective, that the Reader might interpret it to be his own attestation, whereas it was the draught of an approbation of it by some others of eminency both for learning and piety, then living, who were ready to have subscribed it. The Original given to me, ⟨image 3⟩having this Introduction (which was not in the former impression) viz. We are of the Judgement that the Form of Government here proposed, &c. I suppose Doctor Holdsworth was one, by what I found under his hand annexed.
5. The Postscript is set forth so defective, that the Reader might interpret it to be his own attestation, whereas it was the draught of an approbation of it by some others of eminency both for learning and piety, then living, who were ready to have subscribed it. The Original given to me, ⟨image 3⟩having this Introduction (which was notin the former impression) viz. We are of the Judgement that the Forme of Government here proposed, &c. I suppose Doctor Holdsworth was one, by what I found under his hand annexed.