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 of Christ in Boston. ; [Six lines from Bishop Croft]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12009.
Publisher: Printed by Daniel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Episcopacy -- History of doctrines.; Fathers of the church.
Notes: Advertised in the Boston news-letter, May 30, 1734, as preparing for the press, but not printed until 1771.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B-3Pþ́ (3P4 verso blank)

Error in paging: p. 272 misnumbered 722.

Two states of p. 374 noted. One has the catchword 'these,' the other, the catchword 'Phillippus.'

Errata note, p. 474.

Evans 12009.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12009)