Causa episcopatus hierarchici lucifuga: or, A confutation of J. S's Vindication of the (pretended) principles of the Cyprianic age; exposing his fruitless attempts upon presbyterian government therein, and his alike fruitless pleadings for the hierarchie upon the same ground, dissolving also the chief sinews, and overturning the scope of that voluminous pamphlet; in exhibiting a view of the churches defection in the third age, and the considerable advances of the mystery of iniquity therein, and in special with respect to church-government; discovering also his unsuccessful pleading, whether from the practice of that age, in point of episcopacy, simply considered, or the reception thereof under the notion of a divine institution; assigning signal differences betwixt the cyprianic bishop pleaded for by this pamphleter, and the truly apostolick bishop represented in scripture: his impeaching the doctrine of the reform'd churches, in the scope and series of his pleading, evidently made appear; as also, his declining the true state of this controversie: his several attacks upon the Rev. Mr. Rule, and the author of the hierarchical bishops claim, repell'd: unsound and inconsistent principles in the whole detected; besides several other things tending to clear the truth in this debate, advanc'd. To which is annex'd an appendix containing a scripture assertion of Presbyterian principles, both in point of government and worship..
Forrester, Thomas,1635?-1706.
Restenneth Library,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.s.912(2)
Graham Hunter Foundation,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.s.912(2)
Edinburgh, : Printed by the heirs and snccessors [sic] of Andrew Anderson, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Anno Dom.,
1706..
'A vindication of a discourse entituled The principles of the Cyprianic age' is by John Sage.
Anonymous author: Thomas Forrester.
Bound with: A review and consideration of two late pamphlets by Thomas Forrester.
ESTC
The front pastedown has the bookplate of the "Restenneth Library / Graham Hunter Foundation, Inc.".
Sage, John, 1652-1711.
Episcopacy
Presbyterianism
Church Polity