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Author: Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.
Title: The healing attempt being a representation of the government of the Church of England, according to the judgment of her bishops unto the end of Q. Elizabeths reign, humbly tendred to the consideration of the thirty commissionated for a consult about ecclesiastical affairs in order to a comprehension, and published in hopes of such a moderation of episcopacy, that the power be kept within the line of our first reformers, and the exercise of it reduced to the model of Arch-Bishop Usher.
Print source: The healing attempt being a representation of the government of the Church of England, according to the judgment of her bishops unto the end of Q. Elizabeths reign, humbly tendred to the consideration of the thirty commissionated for a consult about ecclesiastical affairs in order to a comprehension, and published in hopes of such a moderation of episcopacy, that the power be kept within the line of our first reformers, and the exercise of it reduced to the model of Arch-Bishop Usher.
Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.
London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst ..., 1689.
Notes:
Epistle signed: J.H.
Attributed to John Humfrey. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Advertisement: p. 84.
Reproduction of original in University of Illinois Library.
Subject terms:
Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45129.0001.001
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Table of Contents
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The Epistle to the Commissioners.
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.
THE Healing Attempt.
The Introduction.
CHAP. I. The Sense of our First Reformers in Henry the Eighth's Days.
CHAP. II. The Judgment of the Reformers in Edward the Sixth's Days the same 'twas in Henry the Eighth's, holding no Difference by Divine Law between a Bishop and Presbyter.
CHAP. III. Aley Bishop of Exeter, Pilkington Bishop of Durham, Jewel Bishop of Salisbury, Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury, of the same Opinion with Tindall, Lam∣bert, Barnes, and the Reformers in King Edward's Time.
CHAP. IV. Dr. Willet's Sentiments much the same with the foremen∣tion'd Bishops, The Difference between a Bishop and Presbyter as of Divine Right declur'd to be Popish, and oppos'd as such. The special Consecration of Bishops was Ordained, not by a Divine Law, but by the Church, for the Dignity of their Calling. Saravia for no other Difference between a Presbyter and Bishop but in Degree. Bancroft for a Priority in degree only, holding with Dr. Robinson, Dr. Reynolds, and Dr. Fulk, whose Au∣thorities he insists on to Confirm his Opinion about a Gra∣dual Difference between Bishop and Presbyter.
CHAP. V. The Learned Hooker, and Bishop Bilson's Opinion impar∣tially stated, differing but little from Saravia and Bancroft.
CHAP. VI. Archbishop Usher's Reduction of Episcopacy with some Notes on it. The Reduction of Episcopacy unto the Form of Synodical Government received in the Ancient Church; propo∣sed in the year 1641. as an Expedient for the pre∣vention of those Troubles, which afterwards did arise about the matter of Church-Government.
Episcopal and Presbyterial Government Conjoyned.
Notes.
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CHAP. VII. The Reasonableness of the Church of England's condescend∣ing to establish the Government proposed by Archbishop Usher in this Reduction.
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