Five disputations of church-government, and worship
Subtitle: I. Whether it be necessary or profitable to the right order or peace of the churches of England, that we restore the extruded episcopy? Neg. II. Assert. Those who nullifie our present ministry and churches, which have not the prelatical ordination, and teach the people to do the like, do incur the guilt of grievous sin. III. An episcopacy desirable for the reformation, preservation and peace of the churches. IV. Whether a stinted liturgie or form of worship be a desirable means for the peace of these churches? V. Whether humane ceremonies be necessary or profitable to the church?
By: by Richard Baxter
Contributors: White, Robert, active 1639-1677, printer; Simmons, Nevill, bookseller; Johnson, Thomas, active 1660, bookseller
Publisher: Printed by R[obert]. W[hite]. for Nevil Simmons, Bookseller in Kederminster, and are to be sold by him there, and by Thomas Johnson at the Golden Key in St. Pauls Church-yard [London]
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Church polity; Early works to 1800; Episcopacy; Ordination; Liturgics
Notes: "An advertisement to prevent misunderstanding" (caption title) and "Whether it be necessary of profitable to the right order of the peace of the Churches of England that we restore the extruded episcopacy?" (caption title) each begin new pagination; register is continuous. "The second [third-, fourth-, fifth-] disputation" each have separate title page with "printed by Robert White, for Nevil Simmons .. 1658" in imprint; register and pagination are continuous.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R13446

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B1267

British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.970[1]