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Episcopacy. A letter to the Reverend Mr. Forster, the author of a late pamphlet intitled, Two letters from a late Dissenting teacher; with an answer to the former, and animadversions upon the latter. By Thomas Howe.
Howe, Thomas, 1729-1814.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Episcopacy vindicated, in a letter to Mr. W. Clark a Dissenting Teacher. To which is prefix'd Mr. Clark's first Letter to Mr. Richardson, upon his Conversion; and Mr. Richardson's Answer. By William Richardson lately a Dissenting Teacher, but now a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Richardson, William, active 1706-1712.Date: 1712- Books
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Episcopacy asserted and recommended as the great bond of union; in a sermon preach'd before the Right Reverend Father in God James Ld. Bp. of Lincoln, at his visitation held at Loughborough, on Tuesday, August the 13th 1700. By John Alleyne, B.D. Rector of Loughborough, late Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge.
Alleyne, John, approximately 1659-1739.Date: 1701- Journals
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Speech Made to the House of Commons Concerning Episcopacy
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A draught for a national church accommodation: whereby the subjects of North and South-Britain, However Different in Their Judgments concerning Episcopacy and Presbytery, May yet be United.
Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.Date: 1709- Books
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A short view of the controversy about Episcopacy, and our church communion ... In a letter to a friend of the Presbyterian perswasion, in the city of Chester. By Gifith [sic] Jones, ...
Jones, Griffith, Rector of Denbigh.Date: 1721- Books
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Smith's poems of controversy betwixt Episcopacy and Presbytry: ... as also, several poems and merry songs on other subjects: with some funeral elegies on several noblemen and gentlemen. In two parts. By Robert Smith ...
Smith, Robert, Schoolmaster at Glenshee.Date: 1714- Books
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A clear account of the ancient episcopacy, proving It to have been Parochial, and therefore inconsistent with the present Model of Diocesan Episcopacy. Wherein the Several Pretensions for the Divine Right of the Latter are fully examin'd. And Mr. Boyse's Sermon concerning the Scriptural Bishop, and the Postscript to it are defended against Mr. Drury's Vindication of his Answer to it. To which are added, Some Reflections on Mr. Whiston's Citation of Clemens's Epistle, in Favour of the (pretended) Constitutions of the Apostles; shewing that from their Disagreement upon this Head of Episcopacy, those Constitutions plainly appear spurious.
Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728.Date: 1712- Books
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Mr. Bowman's sermon, preach'd at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, versify'd. In which is prov'd that all Tradition Is the Destruction of Religion; 'tis likewise shewn by dint of Reason Episcopacy is high Treason. By Christopher Crambo, Esq;
Bowman, William, approximately 1703-1744.Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]- Books
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Mr. Bowman's sermon, preach'd at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, versify'd. In which is prov'd that all Tradition Is the Destruction of Religion; 'tis likewise shewn by dint of Reason Episcopacy is high Treason. By Christopher Crambo, Esq;
Bowman, William, approximately 1703-1744.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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A brief defence of the divine institution of the episcopal order; and of the superiority of bishops over the inferior clergy, The Presbyters and Deacons. By a presbyter of the Church of England. In answer to a pamphlet lately published, intitled, Episcopacy.
Forster, Thomas, -1785.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A draught for a national church accommodation; whereby the Subjects of North and South-Britain, However different in their Judgments concerning Episcopacy and Presbytery, May yet be United, In regard to the Queen's Headship over Both, in One Church as well as Kingdom of Great Britain.
Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.Date: 1709- Books
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A defence of the Vindication of Presbyterian ordination, &c. Containing a reply to I. A Lay-Man's Reflections, relating to the Vindication, in a Letter to the Reverend Mr. Shaw. And also to II. Mr. Sturges's sermons, entitled, The Divine Right of Episcopacy Asserted. By the Author of the Vindication.
Hartley, John, -1724.Date: 1716- Books
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An answer to the remarks of Mr. John Norman of Portsmouth, on a sermon Preached at Petersfield, June 17th 1722. Wherein the Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy is Vindicated from his Exceptions: And the Nature of Church Communion, and our Obligation to maintain it are at large Explained. By William Lowth, B. D. Rector of that Parish, and Prebendary of Winchester.
Lowth, William, 1660-1732.Date: M,DCC,XXIII. [1723]- Books
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A century of eminent Presbyterian preachers. Or, a collection of choice sayings from the publick sermons preached before the two Houses, from November 1640, to January 31. 1648. ... To which is added, an appendix, with the short characters of several of these preachers ... taken from Dr. Calamy's abridgment of Baxter's life. By a lover of Episcopacy.
Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.Date: 1723- Books
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The speech of Mr. John Checkley, upon his tryal, at Boston in New-England, for publishing The short and easy method with the Deists: To which was added, A Discourse concerning Episcopacy; In Defence of Christianity, and the Church of England, against the Deists and ... To which is added, the jury's verdict; his plea in arrest of judgment; and the sentence of court.
Checkley, John, 1680-1754.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The rational and moral conduct of Mr. Peirce examined: in remarks upon his sermon, entituled, Presbyterian ordination prov'd regular. Wherein also is Contain'd An Examination of the Doctrinal Part of his Sermon, Entituled, An Useful Ministry a Valid One. To which is added Mr. Chillingworth's Demonstration of the Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy. By a clergyman of the Church of England.
Jackman, John, 1671 or 1672-Date: 1717- Books
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An apology for the use of the English liturgy and worship; against the cavils and exceptions of the Presbyterians in North-Britain: in a letter to Mr. Francis Melvil, One of the Presbyterian Teachers in Aberdeen. To which are added, Some Considerations concerning Set Forms of Prayer, Episcopacy, Schism, and other Matters relating to Church-Communion. By a citizen of Aberdeen.
Gordon, William, citizen of Aberdeen.Date: [1718]- Books
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The speech of Mr. John Checkley upon his tryal, at Boston in New-England, for publishing The short and easy method with the Deists: To which was added, A Discourse concerning Episcopacy; In Defence of Christianity, and the Church of England, against the Deists and the Dissenters. To which is added: the jury's verdict; his plea in arrest of judgment; and the sentence of court.
Checkley, John, 1680-1754.Date: 1730- Books
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A vindication of a discourse occasioned by Mr. Boyse's ordination sermon, intituled, The office of a scriptural bishop: from His Remarks in a Postscript to that Sermon, containing an Apology (as he pretends) for the Publication of it. In which the Divine Right of Episcopacy Is further Asserted; And our first Reformers Vindicated from the Imputation of being enclin'd to a Presbyterian Parity. By Edward Drury, A.M.
Drury, Edward, 1671 or 1672-Date: 1709- Books
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Britannia libera. A true narrative of the antiquity, independency, purity, and uniformity of the British churches: Wherein from Unquestionable, Authentick History, and Matter of Fact, these following Heads are clearly Demonstrated: I. That the Christian Faith was Preached and Planted in Great-Britain, in the Days of the Holy Apostles, by St. Paul in Person, and others of our Blessed Saviour's Immediate Disciples and Hearers. II. That the British Churches in the First Six Ages after our Saviour's Passion, continued Distinct and Independent from that of Rome, and ever after vigorously opposed the Tyrannical Usurpations and Anti-Scriptural Innovations of the same. III. That the Ancient Britains preserved the Faith in its Greatest Purity, by the Light of the Holy Scriptures and Apostolick Tradition. IV. That the Doctrine and Discipline of the British Churches was from the Beginning Uniform. That they always held Diocesan Episcopacy, both in Name and Authority, as now Legally Established, and Gloriously Flourishing in England and Ireland. The Original, Progress, and Decay of Episcopacy in Scotland. Original of the Scotch League with France, and Remarks upon the same. A Short View of the most Material Affairs of Church and State, in the Reigns of the several British Princes, during the Two last Centuries. Evident Proof, That the Church of Scotland Reformed from Romish Superstitions by the Assistance of England, and upon the same Bottom with her, both as to Doctrine, Government and Ceremonies. The Characters of the chief Persons concerned in the Scottish Reformation, and their Conformity to the Church of England. Probability of Restoring Episcopacy in North-Britain. By Ninian Wallis, M. A. Author Britannia Concors.
Wallis, Ninian.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- Books
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The history of the downfall and resurrection of episcopacy in Great Britain. Wherein is briefly shewn, I. That Bishops are of Divine Institution. II. That there has been a continual Succession of Bishops in the Church, from the Apostles. III. That there were always Bishop in Great Britain, since its first Conversion to Christianity. IV. How Episcopacy came first to be abolish'd in Scotland, and how restor'd. V. Its Downfall in Scotland, and then in England. VI. Its Resurrection in both Kingdoms, and then VII. Again cast out of Scotland. With Many Remarks of the implacable Hatred of all Sectaries to that Holy Order, which they have persecuted with the utmost Malice, whensoever it has been in their Power.
Date: [1717]- Books
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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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Scottish episcopacy past and present / by Alexander Thomson.
Thomson, Alexander, 1798-1868.Date: 1860- Books
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An inquiry into the origin of episcopacy, in a discourse preached in June, 1790. By a dignitary of the Church of England.
Berkeley, George, 1733-1795.Date: 1791