A counter-poyson modestly written for the time, to make aunswere to the obiections and reproches, wherewith the aunswerer to the Abstract, would disgrace the holy discipline of Christ.

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A counter-poyson modestly written for the time, to make aunswere to the obiections and reproches, wherewith the aunswerer to the Abstract, would disgrace the holy discipline of Christ.

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At London :: Printed by Robert Waldegraue,

[1584]

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Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. -- Answer to the two first and principall treatises of a certeine factious libell, put foorth latelie, without name of author or printer, and without approbation by authoritie, under the title of An abstract of certeine acts of Parlement: of certeine hir Majesties canons, &c.

Church of England -- Government -- Controversial literature.

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"A counter-poyson modestly written for the time, to make aunswere to the obiections and reproches, wherewith the aunswerer to the Abstract, would disgrace the holy discipline of Christ." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00637.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Authour to the Reader.
• A FAITHFVLL BROTHER to the Christian Reader.
• Faults escaped.
• ❧ Of the cer∣taine forme of Ecclesia∣sticall Gouernment, prescribed by the Word of God, and perpetuall for all ages.
  • Of Election with consent of the people.
  • That euery Minister, of diuine seruice in the publique Congregation, ought to be apt to preach.
  • Ministers fallen to idolatrie from their Mi∣nisterie, ought not to be receiued to their ministerie.
  • Of the authoritie of Ministers of the Worde.
  • Of the Doctor or teacher, that he is an or∣dinary and perpetuall officer in the Church of Christ, distinct from the Pastor, by the Worde of God.
  • Of the Elders and Eldership.
  • A reply to the variable collections fol∣lowing, against the Disci∣pline.