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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
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The Provincial Synod might consist of all the Bishops and Suffragans, and such other of the Clergy as should be elected out of every Diocese within the Province, the Archbishop of either Province might be the Moderator of this meeting (or in his room some one of the Bishops appointed by him) and all matters be ordered therein by common consent as in the former Assemblies.
This Synod might be held every third year, and if the Parliament do then sit (according to the Act of a Triennial Parliament) both the Archbishops and Provincial Synods of the Land might join together, and make up a National Council: Wherein all Appeals from inferior Synods might be received, all their Acts examined and all Ecclesiastical constitutions which concern the state of the Church of the whole Nation established.
This Synod might be held every third year, and if the Parliament do then sit (according to the Act of a Triennial Parliament) both the Archbishops and Provincial Synods of the Land might joyn together, and make up a National Councel: Wherein all Appeals from inferior Synods might be received, all their Acts examined and all Ecclesiastical constitutions which concern the state of the Church of the whole Nation established.
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