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A letter to the Reverend Dr. Snape; wherein the authority of the Christian priesthood is maintain'd; the uninterrupted succession of bishops from the Apostles days is lineally deduced; and the Cavils of Hereticks and Fanaticks are answer'd. By a curate of Wilts.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXVIII. [1718]- 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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A vindication of the Appendix to the Sober remarks. Being a reply to some animadversions upon it, in the Appendix to the Defence of the Modest proof. Wherein the Ruling and ordaining power of Congregational bishops, or presbyters, is further defended. In a second letter to a friend. [One line from Proverbs]
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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A defence of a book lately re-printed at Boston, entituled, A modest proof of the order and government settled by Christ and his apostles in the church. In a reply to a book entituled, Sober remarks on the modest proof, &c. In a letter to a friend. [One line from Numbers
Checkley, John, 1680-1754.Date: 1724- Books
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A letter to the Reverend Dr. Snape, wherein the authority of the Christian priesthood is maintain'd; the uninterrupted succession of bishops from the Apostles days is lineally deduced; and the Cavils of Hereticks and Fanaticks are answer'd. By a curate of Wilts.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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Diocesan episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture: with a letter to Mr. Edmund Calamy, in the room of a dedicatory epistle. By Thomas Edwards, M. A. of St. John's College in Cambridge, and late Chaplain of Christ's-Church in Oxford.
Edwards, Thomas, 1652-1721.Date: 1705- Books
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A short and easie method with the deists. Wherein the certainty of the Christian religion is demonstrated, by infallible proof from four rules, which are incompatible to any imposture that ever yet has been, or that can possibly be. In a letter to a friend.
Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.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 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 second letter from John Bowden, A.M. Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, to the Reverend Doctor Stiles, president of Yale-College. In this letter, the Reverend Doctor Chauncy's Compleat view of episcopacy until the close of the second century, is particularly considered; and some remarks are made upon a few passages of Doctor Stiles's election sermon. [Five lines from Hooker]
Bowden, John, 1751-1817.Date: 1789- Books
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Deism refuted: or, the truth of Christianity demonstrated, by infallible proof from four rules which are incompatible to any imposture that can possibly be. In a letter to a friend. By a lover of truth.
Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A letter to the Reverend Dr. Snape; wherein the authority of the Christian priesthood is maintain'd; the uninterrupted succession of bishops from the Apostles days is lineally deduced; and the Cavils of Hereticks and Fanaticks are answer'd. By a curate of Wilts.
Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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Lectures to lords spiritual: or, an advice to the bishops, concerning religious articles, tithes, and church power. With a Discourse on Ridicule. By Mr. James Murray, Author of sermons to Asses, &c.
Murray, James, 1732-1782.Date: 1798- Books
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The appeal farther defended; in answer to the farther misrepresentations of Dr. Chauncy. By Thomas B. Chandler, D.D. [Five lines of quotations]
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
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An answer to J. B.'s ordination sermon, entituled, The office of a scriptural bishop: and to it's appendix. By Matthew French, A. M. Junior Fellow of Trinity-College, and Curate of St. Warbrough's-Church, Dublin.
French, Matthew.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
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A free examination of the Critical commentary on Archbishop Secker's Letter to Mr. Walpole: to which is added, by way of appendix, a copy of Bishop Sherlock's memorial. By Thomas B. Chandler, D.D. [Seven lines from Fothergill]
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The original of bishops and metropolitans briefly laid down by James Arch Bishop of Armagh.
Ussher, James, 1581-1656.Date: Printed in the year, 1703- Books
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The appeal defended: or, the proposed American episcopate vindicated, in answer to the objections and misrepresentations of Dr. Chauncy and others. By Thomas Bradbury Chandler, D.D.
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790.Date: 1769- Books
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The sameness of bishops and presbyters, as to order, tho not as to dignity, no less briefly than clearly prov'd: and likewise, that laymen are as essentially the church as clergymen; having as much authority to declare the Traditions of the Church, and consequently to determine Controversies. With a defence of universities against the Pope and bishops, &c. in a letter from a doctor of the Sorbonne to the Bishop of Autun. Translated from the French, and humbly dedicated to his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Date: 1717- Books
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A reply to an apology for protesting against the Methodist Episcopal government. Compiled principally from original manuscripts. By Nicholas Snethen. [Two lines from The Epistle of James]
Snethen, Nicholas, 1769-1845.Date: 1800- 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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Episcopal the only apostolical ordination: or the case of ordination truly consider'd, in relation to these questions; viz. I. What is a minister of the gospel? ... To which is prefixed a letter from the Reverend George Hickes D.D.
Hamilton, William, -1729.Date: 1713- Books
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An essay upon that paradox, Infallibility may sometimes mistake. or, A reply to A discourse concerning episcopacy, said in a late pamphlet to be beyond the possibility of a reply. To which is prefixed, some remarks upon said pamphlet, entituled, A discourse shewing, who is a true pastor of the church of Christ. As also remarks upon St. Ignatius's Epistle to the Trallians. By a son of Martin-Mar-Prelate. [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Walter, Thomas, 1696-1725.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The Appeal to the public answered, in behalf of the non-Episcopal churches in America; containing remarks on what Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler has advanced, on the four following points. The original and nature of the Episcopal office. Reasons for sending bishops to America. The plan on which it is proposed to send them. And the objections against sending them obviated and refuted. Wherein the reasons for an American episcopate are shewn to be insufficient, and the objections against it in full force. By Charles Chauncy, D.D. and Pastor of the First Church in Boston.
Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.Date: 1768- Books
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Remarks upon the postscript to the Defence of a book lately reprinted at Boston, entituled, A modest proof of the order, &c. In a letter of thanks to the author. By Jonathan Dickinson, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Elisabeth-Town, N. Jersey. [Four lines of Scripture texts
Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688-1747.Date: 1724- Books
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An examination of Mr. J. B's postscript; acknowledg'd by himself to be no full and perfect answer to the papers written against him. By Matthew French, M. A. Junior-Fellow of Trinity College, and Curate of St. Warbrough's Church, Dublin.
French, Matthew.Date: MDCCIX. [1709]