A pack of Puritans, maintayning the vnlavvfulnesse, or vnexpediencie or both. Of pluralities and nonresidency. Unpreaching prelates and ministers. Sole ordination, and election, excommunication. The clergies pomp, ambition, lordlinesse, riches. Misimploying the temporalities of the church, The clergyes medling with temporall offices and affaires. The oath ex officio. As also a defence of the authority of princes and parliaments to intermeddle with matters of religion, and a short discourse whether things consecrated may be alienated.
Wentworth, Peter,Sir,1592-1675.
Hailstone, Edward,1818-1890,former owner.StEdNL
London : printed for William Sheeres,
1641.
Anonymous. By Peter Wentworth.
The words "pluralities ... oath ex officio." are bracketed together on title page.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-H⁴.
Annotation on Thomason Copy: "45 pages"(following the title words "short discourse").
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996),
ESTC
Thomason,
Black morocco gilt armorial bookplate of Edward Hailctone on front pastedown.
Church and state
England London.