Certain brief treatises, written by diverse learned men, concerning the ancient and moderne government of the Church wherein both the primitive institution of episcopacie is maintained, and the lawfulnesse of the ordination of the Protestant ministers beyond the seas likewise defended.
Subtitle: The particulars whereof are set down in the leafe following ...
Publisher: pr. by Leonard Lichfield
Published: 1641
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
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Table of contents: value: I. A discovery of the causes of the continuance of these contentions concerning Church government, by Richard Hooker.-  II. A summary view of the government both of the old and New Testament, by Lancelot Andrewes.-  III. The originall of Bishops and metropolitans briefly laid down by Martin Bucer, John Rainoldes and James, Archbp. of Armagh.-  IV. A geographical and historical disquisition, touching the Lydian or Proconsular Asia, and the seven metropoliticall Churches contained therein, by the Archbp. of Armagh.-  V. A declaration of the patriarchicall government of the ancient Church, by Edward Brerewood.- VI. A briefe declaration of the severall forms of government, received in the reformed churches beyond the seas, by John Duree.-  VII. The lawfulnesse of the ordination of the ministers of those churches maintained against the Romanists, by Francis Mason.