The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . them and their of fuch Goods^ and to ogiiT^y the fame unto men of fecjflar callingSy now extreain Sacrilegiouf The rtate ofBi:iiops al-thoL gh fom-tin-c oppii:^-ncdjim! thatby Iuch astKe:in wriiMmrft c


The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . them and their of fuch Goods^ and to ogiiT^y the fame unto men of fecjflar callingSy now extreain Sacrilegiouf The rtate ofBi:iiops al-thoL gh fom-tin-c oppii:^-ncdjim! thatby Iuch astKe:in wriiMmrft ceni topkarcGod,ycc by hisproviclcnccupheld 1-1-_thcttOjwVofegioiy ic ii w-<»reoFhimftl^is 1. rf:(f^^^t^!^ Have heard thata famous Kingdom in the world beingfol- to retbrm fuch Liiiorder as all men Kaw the Churchexceedingly buitheiied with , when oi each degree greatmiutifudss thefeiiiita iauliijed , atjd the number of thcnidid every day foencreafe that this intended woiic was like-ly to take no other effeft then .ill good men did wifh andlabour for : A priicipal aftor herein (for zeai and bold-nefs of fpirit) thought it go^d to (hew tliem bttimes wlacit wasvhich muit be effefted, orelfethat tliere could be no work of j erfeft Re-ftTTTnition accompliilied. Tot^iis purpofe , in a foknn Sermon, andin agreat Af-fembiy he defcujed unto them the prefent quality of their pullique titate, by thepara-iieof a tree , huge and goodly to look upon, but without that fruit which t(houd and niiqiit brin^ forth-, athrming that the onely wayofredrefs was a ttdl andperfeft eihblilhmentof Ciirilh Difcipline ( for fo their manner is to entitle a thinghartrmered out upon the forge of


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