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Episcopacy - Early works to 1800
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A full justification of the doctrines advanced in Mr. Bowman's visitation sermon; or, the authority claimed by bishops not warranted jure divino tho' supported jure humano. Containing Arguments proving the Identity and Parity of Bishops and Presbyters by Divine Institution; and that the Postscripts in the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy and in that to Titus (upon which Foundation is built the Divine Right of Episcopacy) are Spurious, and of no Authority. With The Opinions and Resolutions of K. Henry Viii. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Commons, Convocation, &c. concerning the Superiority and Jurisdiction of Bishops over Presbyters.
Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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An apology for the foreign Protestant churches having no episcopacy: and an answer to the unchristian and uncharitable principles of Mr. Henry Cantrel, M. A. Vicar of St. Alkmund's, Derby; denying the Validity of their Ministers Orders. Together with a short account of the ancient churches of the Valdences and Albigences. By a priest of the Church of England.
Grongnet, Stephen.Date: 1717- Books
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The ruling & ordaining power of Congregational bishops, or presbyters, defended. Being remarks on some part of Mr. P. Barclay's Persuasive, lately distributed in New-England. By an impartial hand. In a letter to a friend.
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: 1724- Books
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The story of the ordination of our first bishops in Queen Elizabeth's reign at the Nag's-Head Tavern in Cheapside, thoroughly examined; and proved to be a late-invented, inconsistent, self-contradicting, and absurd fable. With A View of the Case between Horne and Bonner, and of the Writings of Stapleton, Harding, and Sanders. Whereby it is proved, That neither Bonner nor those Writers ever heard of the Tavern-Ordination, or called in question the Consecration of Parker, Jewell, Horne, &c. at the Arch-Bishop's Chapel at Lambeth. In Answer to what is pretended to the contrary, by F. Le Quien, in his Two Treatises, Ann. 1725, and 1730, Of the Nullity of the English Ordinations; and by an English anonymous Writer of Remarks, on F. Le Courayer's Dissertation in Defense of their Validity. With Occasional Reflections on the Author of, The Nullity of the Prelatick Clergy and Church of England. By Thomas Browne, B. D. Formerly Fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambridge.
Browne, Thomas, 1654?-1741.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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The Apostolical, therefore divine institution of episcopacy, asserted, By many of the most reverend bishops, and most learned divines of the Church of England, whose names are as follows, viz. Dr. Carleton, Dr. Davenant, Dr. Balconqual, Dr. Warde, Dr. Goad, Dr. Reynold, A.B. Laud, Dr. Sanderost, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Sanderost, Dr. Sudbury, Dr. Priaulx, Dr. Basire, a city divine. To which is added a postscript, the sentiments of King James the First, and the royal martyr:
Date: Printed in the year, 1709