| Author: | Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787. |
| Title: | A compleat view of episcopacy, 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 Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Boston. ; [Six lines from Bishop Croft] |
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| Print source: | A compleat view of episcopacy, 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 Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Boston. ; [Six lines from Bishop Croft] Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787. Boston:: Printed by Daniel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill., M,DCC,LXXI. [1771] |
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Episcopacy -- History of doctrines.
Fathers of the church.
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