The diocesans tryall. Wherein all the sinnewes of Doctor Dovvnhams Defence are brought into three heads, and orderly dissolved. By M. Paul Baynes. Published by Dr. William Amis. The questions discussed in this diocesans tryall are these: 1. Whether Christ did institute, or the Apostles frame any diocesan forme of churches, or parishionall onely, pag. 1. 2. Whether Christ ordained by himselfe, or by his Apostles, any ordinary pastours, as our bishops, having both precedency of order, and majority of power over others, pag. 24. 3. Whether Christ did immediately commit ordinary power ecclesiasticall, and the exercise of it, to any one singular person, or to an united multitude of presbyters, pag. 78.
Baynes, Paul,-1617.
Ames, William,-1662,ed.
[S.l.] : Imprinted,
1621 [i.e. 1644?]
A reply to: Downame, George.  A defence of the sermon preached at the consecration of the L. Bishop of Bath and Welles, against a confutation thereof by a namelesse author.
The imprint is false; actual publication date conjectured by Wing.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Thomason
ESTC
Downame, George, -1634.
Church of England
Episcopacy