Separation examined
Subtitle: or, A treatise vvherein the grounds for separation from the ministry and churches of England are weighed, and found too light. The practise proved to be not onely unwarrantable, but likewise so hurtful to the churches, that church-reformation cannot with any comfort go forward so long as such separation is tolerated. Also an humble request presented to the Congregational Divines, that [since the differences between them and the classical-divines are very small] they would please to strike in with the classical-divines in carrying on the worke of Reformation, before the inundation of these corrupt opinions, have destroyed both ordinances and religion
By: By Gi. Firmin minister to the Church in Shalford in Essex
Publisher: printed by R. I[bbitson]. for Stephen Bowtell, at the Bible in Popes-Head-Alley
Published: 1652
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Congregationalism; Controversial literature; Independent churches; Religious Dissenters; Separatists
Other titles: Separation examined.; Treatise vvherein the grounds for separation from the ministry and churches of England are weighed and found too light.; Treatise wherein the grounds for separation from the ministry and churches of England are weighed and found too light.
Notes: The words "since the differences between them and the classical-divines are very small" are enclosed in square brackets on the title page.

Name of printer supplied by Wing.

Includes a discussion of the comparison of New England churches to those in England.

Signatures: b² (b2 missigned b) B-Q⁴ (Q4 verso blank)

Errors in paging: p. 17 misnumbered 9; p. 20 and 21 misnumbered 12 and 13; p. 24 misnumbered 16.

Title printed within ornamental border; woodcut head pieces; initials.

Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Catalogue of the McAlpin collection of British history and theology, II: 780.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), F964.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III:417.

European Americana 652/91.

English short title catalogue R206624.

Purchase; 1846; 0445.