A compleat view of episcopacy
Subtitle: as exhibited from the fathers of the Christian church, until the close of the second century: : containing an impartial account of them, of their writings, and of what they say concerning bishops and presbyters; with observations, and remarks, tending to shew, that they esteemed these one and same order of ecclesiastical officers. : In answer to those, who have represented it as a certain fact, universally handed down, even from the apostles days, that governing and ordaining authority was exercised by such bishops only, as were of an order superior to presbyters.
By: By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church in Boston. ; [Six lines from Bishop Croft]
Contributors: Leverett, Thomas, 1730-1778,
Publisher: Printed by Daniel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Episcopacy -- History of doctrines.; Fathers of the church.