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 . and not Priefts. Bythis power, Paiii^i,/fpr, Jehofaphaty Jofias, and the reft, made thofe Laws andOrders which facredHiftory fpeaketh of, concerning matters of meer Reli-gion, the affaires of the Temple, and ferv
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 . and not Priefts. Bythis power, Paiii^i,/fpr, Jehofaphaty Jofias, and the reft, made thofe Laws andOrders which facredHiftory fpeaketh of, concerning matters of meer Reli-gion, the affaires of the Temple, and fervicc of God. Finally had it notbeenbythe vertueof this power, how ftiould it polTibly have come to pafs,that the piety or impiety of the Kings did alwayes accordingly change the {publick face of Religion; which things the Prophets by themlelves never did,nor at anytime could hinder from being dene ; had the Priefts alone beeapofTeft of all power in 5piritual affairs, how ftiould any thing concerningmatter of Religion have been made butonly by them; in them it had beenand not in the King to change the face of Religion at any time ; the alteringof Religion, the making of Ecclefiaftical Laws, with other the like aftionsbelonging unto the Power of Dominion,are ftiU termed the deedsofthe King:to (hew, that in him was placed thefiipremacyof power in this kind over all j and rttiMMMMM. OF THE Ei*^ -* O F Ecclefiaftical w s Politic! The Seyenth B oo k. Their Sixth Aflertion, That there ought not to he in the churchy Btfhofs indued mth fuch Authority and Honour as ours are. The Matter contained in this Seventh Book, I- nr He jiate of Bijhopf although fometime oppttgnedj and that by fitch at therein xvouldM. mujifeemta pleafeGody yet by his providence upheld hitherto, rehoft glory it ittn maintain that rvhereofhimfelf isthe Author. 2. What a Bifliop *f, what hit name doth import^ and what doth belong unto bit ojpce as he it a Bilhip. 3. JiBifhopsm-> things traduced-, of which tm, the m
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