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 . T O ^he moft Re^rerend Father in God, my very good Lord,the Lord Avch-BiQaop ofCant^hrjiHis Grace, Trimate 2ind Metropolitan of all E N G L A N D. jOST Reverend in Chrift, the long continued , andniorc then ordin
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 . T O ^he moft Re^rerend Father in God, my very good Lord,the Lord Avch-BiQaop ofCant^hrjiHis Grace, Trimate 2ind Metropolitan of all E N G L A N D. jOST Reverend in Chrift, the long continued , andniorc then ordinary favour, which hitherto your Gracehath been pleafed to Qiew towards mejmay juftly claimat my hands fome thankful acknowledgment which confideration, as alfo for that I embrace vvil-^^ J^A/^ t^ Jingy f^c ancient received courfe, and conveniency ^J^HSr / ? V { that Difcipline 5 which teacheth inferior degrees, andOrder in the Church of God , to fubmit their writingsto the fame Authority , from which their allowable dealings whatfo-ever in fuch affairs , muft receive approbation , I nothing fear butthat your accoftomed clemency will take in good worth the offer ofthefe my fimpl^nd mean labours, beftowed for the neceffary jufti-ficittion of laws heretofore made queftionable , becaufe , as I take it,they were not perfectly underftood. Forfurely, I cannot find a
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