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Author: Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
Title: The regiment of the Church as it is agreable with Scriptures, all antiquities of the Fathers, and moderne writers, from the Apostles themselues, vnto this present age.
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Print source: The regiment of the Church as it is agreable with Scriptures, all antiquities of the Fathers, and moderne writers, from the Apostles themselues, vnto this present age.
Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Grayhound, 1606.
Subject terms:
Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
Church of England -- Customs and practices -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE MOST REVEREND FA∣ther, my very good Lord, Richard by Gods holy ordinance the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterburie his grace, primate and metropolitane of all Eng∣land, grace and peace from God the father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ.
THE REGIMENT of the Church.
CHAP. I. Of sundrie kinds of gouernment, with the nature, qualitie, and condition of the same.
Obiection. 1.
The Answere.
Obiection. 2.
The Answere.
CHAP. II. Of the chiefest and best kinde of Gouernment.
CHAP. III. Of the kind of gouernment, of the Church and common weale of England.
CHAP. IIII. Of the supreame government of the ciuil magistrate ouer all persons and all causes, within his Realmes, territories, and do∣minions.
CHAP. V.
Paragraph first, of the degrees and superioritie of one Minister ouer an other.
The second Paragraph, of the artiquitie of Bishop, Arch∣bishops, Primates, Metropolitans, and Patriarches, in the Christi∣an Church of God.
The 1. Obiection.
The Answere.
The Reply.
The Answere.
The 2. Obiection.
The Answere.
The Reply.
The Answere.
CHAP. VI. Of civill offices, in Ecclesiasticall persons.
CHAP. VII. Of the Churches authoritie, in things indifferent.
The first aphorisme, of things de facto altered in the Church.
The second Aphorisme, of things not expressed in the Scrip∣tures, and yet decreed by the Church to be obserued and kept.
The third aphorisme of the rules which the Church must ob∣serue, in all her constitutions, ordinances, and decrees.
The Demonstration.
The 1. reason drawne from the holy Scriptures.
The 2. reason, drawne from the practise of the auncient Church.
The third reason, drawne from the vniforme consent of best approued late writers.
The Corollarie of the Chapter.
CHAP. VIII. Of things indifferent in particular.
The first Aphorisme, of Chruch-holy dayes.
The second Aphorisme, of kneeling at the holy Communion.
The third Aphorisme of the Surplesse and other apparrel of the Ministers.
The Reply.
The Answere.
The 2. Reply.
The Answere.
The 3. Reply.
The Answere.
The 2. Obiection.
The Answere.
The Reply.
The Answere.
The 3. Obiection.
The Answere.
The 4. Aphorisme, of ceremonies vsed id Wed. locke or marriage.
The fift Aphorisme, of the Symbolicall signe vsed in the confirmation of Children.
The Reply.
The Answere.
The sixt Aphorisme, of the signe of the Crosse, vsed in Baptisme.
CHAP. IX. Of the Election of Ministers.
The first Reason drawne from the practise of Christ and his Apostles.
The second Reason drawne from the Decrees of auncient councels.
The third Reason drawne from the Testimonie of the holy Fathers.
The fourth Reason, drawne from the vniforme consent of late Writers.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The 2. Obiection.
The Answere.
CHAP. X. Of the ordeining of Ministers, and the Ceremonies thereto apperteining.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Obiection
The Answere.
The third Obiection.
The Answere.
The Reply.
The Answere.
The 4. Obiection.
The Answere.
CHAP. XI. Of the Presbyterie, and Seignorie.
The 1. Proposition.
The 2. Proposition.
The 3. Proposition.
The 4. Proposition.
The fift proposition.
The sixt Proposition.
The seuenth Proposition
The first Obiection
The Answere.
The 2. Obiection.
The Answere.
The first Reply.
The Answere.
The 2. Reply.
The Answere.
The 3. Obiection.
The Answere.
The 4. Obiection.
The Answere.
CHAP. XII. Of the discipline of the Church.
The first Section, of the multiplicitie of Church-discipline.
The second Section, containing an answere vnto the former.
The third Section of the essence, nature, and conditi∣on of church-discipline.
The fourth Section, of the persons that must excommunicate.
Ex concilijs.
Ex Patribus.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Obiection.
The Answere.
The Replie.
The Answere.
CHAP. XIII. Of Preaching and other things coincident.
The first Section, of the vocation of Ministers, which cannot Preach.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Section, of Preaching without licence and authoritie.
The third Section, of reading of Homilies in the Church.
The fourth Section, of reading of the Apocrypha in the Church.
CHAP. XIIII. Of certaine extrauagants very offensino to the Patrons of the Presbyterie,
The first member, of Christs Baptisme, and the circum∣stances thereof.
The second member, of certaine Rites and Ceremonies vsed in Baptisme.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Obiection.
The Answere.
The third member of Deacons, and their office in the Church.
The first Obiection.
The Answere.
The second Obiection.
The answere.
The fourth member of Deacons promoted to Priesthood.
The fyfth member, of the generall confession made by priuate persons in the Church.
The sixt member, of praying to be deliuered, from Lightning, Plague, and sodaine death.
The seventh member, of the oath ex officio.
CHAP. XV. Of the punishing and pardoning of male factors.
The first Conclusion.
The Second Conclusion.
The third Conclusion.
The first reason.
The obiection.
The Answere.
The second Reason.
The third reason
The 4. Reason.
The first obiection.
The answer
The 2. Obiection.
Answere.
A TABLE CONTAI∣ning the chiefe and principall mat∣ters of all the Chapters throughout this Discourse.