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 . FACE To chem that feek (as they term it) the Reformation of Laws and Orders Ecclefia^ical, inthe Gburch of England,. Hough for no other caufe j, yet for this, that pofte- ii,caufeandrity may know, wc have not loo
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 . FACE To chem that feek (as they term it) the Reformation of Laws and Orders Ecclefia^ical, inthe Gburch of England,. Hough for no other caufe j, yet for this, that pofte- ii,caufeandrity may know, wc have not loofely through fiJence fccsfionofpermitted things to pafs away as^m a dream , there {Vng^ee nni/- ° X I 1 things : and ihallbe tor mens mrormation extant thus much con- what might becerning the prefent ftate of the Church of God efta- Y^fd blifhed amongfi: us, and their careful endeavour l,i,oTeVaTcswhich would have upheld the fame. At your hands, in our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrifi: (for in P^^^^^kcnhim the love which we bear unto all that would butfeem to be born of him , it is not the Sea of your gall and bitternefs that(hall ever drown^ I have no great caufe to look for other then the felf-fame portion and lot, which your manner hath been hitherto to lay onthem that concur not in Opinion and Sentence with you. But our hope is,that the God of peace fhall fnotwithftanding mans nature, too impatientof contumelious maledidion ^enable us quietly,and even gladly to fufFer allthi
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