Historical Collections concerning church affairs
Subtitle: in which it is shew'd, fromthe antient church historians, Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers, that the right to dispose of Bishops, purely in relation to their spiritual charges, in their respective districts, was believed to be subjected in the clergy alone, as a seperate independent body from the lay power, during the reigns of Constantine and Constantius, the two first Christian emperors : and that it was the judgment of the Catholick Christians, in those days, if the secular magistrate, oranyirresitible party did assume the same right, upon any consideration whatever, that they were not to be recem'd nor obey'd in the execution of it....
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Notes: Other title information: To which are added, some occasional observations upon Dr. Hody's book called The case of the sees vacabt, by an unjust and uncanonical deprivation, stated.

Reference: Wing H2098A.