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 . the Ward of Hon) great in]ury menbyfo thinWngjhould offer unto all the Churches of Afhift notivithjiandingto maintain it, by interpreting Commzr\t\ed as though it rveremeant that greater things onel
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 . the Ward of Hon) great in]ury menbyfo thinWngjhould offer unto all the Churches of Afhift notivithjiandingto maintain it, by interpreting Commzr\t\ed as though it rveremeant that greater things onely ought to be found fet doivn in Scripture particularly ^and Icjfer framed by the general rules of Scripture. 8. Another device to defend the fame, by expXiding Commanded as if it did figniie grounded in Scripture, and pre e oppofed to things found out by tight of naturalrsafoK onely, 9. How Laivs fir the Polity of the Church may be made by the advice of men, and htiv thofe Lares btingmt repugnant tothe Wordof God, are approved in his Pght. 10. bat neither Gods btin? the Author of Lares, nor yet his committing of them to Scripture, is any reafm fufficientt) Prove that they admit no additivi or change. 11. IVbether ChrljimUji needs intend Lares unchangeable atigetber, or have forbidden any whereto make any otberhare then bimfelf did deliver. Albeit Ecclefiaflicall^olitte, ^ 6i. Lbeit thefiibftaiice of thofe controverlies whereinto we have be- V\ hat to wade, be rather of outwaid things appertaining to the <-iichi»,arChurch of Chiill, then of any thing wherein the nature and be- . * -P ^ing of the Church conlilleth : yet becaufe the fubjeft or niattei- ^ f ^which thispolition concerneth, is J form of Church-gover?iment ,,ntonc in/or Church Polity ^ It therefore behoveth us fo far forth to conli- the nature or the Church, as is requilite for mens moreclearand plain underiknding, in tvhatreipeft Laws of Polity orGovernment are oeceflary thereunto. That Ch
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