A compleat view of episcopacy, : as exhibited from the fathers of the Christian church, until the close of the second century: : containing an impartial account of them, of their writings, and of what they say concerning bishops and presbyters; with observations, and remarks, tending to shew, that they esteemed these one and same order of ecclesiastical officers. : In answer to those, who have represented it as a certain fact, universally handed down, even from the apostles days, that governing and ordaining authority was exercised by such bishops only, as were of an order superior to presbyters. / By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church in Boston. ; [Six lines from Bishop Croft]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.

Contributor:

Leverett, Thomas, 1730-1778, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Episcopacy--History of doctrines.

Episcopacy.

Fathers of the church.

Physical Description:

x, xiv, 15-474 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by Daniel Kneeland, in Queen-Street, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill., 1771.

Notes:

Advertised in the Boston news-letter, May 30, 1734, as preparing for the press, but not printed until 1771.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3P⁴ (3P4 verso blank).

Error in paging: p. 272 misnumbered 722.

Two states of p. 374 noted. One has the catchword 'these,' the other, the catchword 'Phillippus.'

Errata note, p. 474.

Local Notes:

Portrait inserted as frontispiece.

P. 374 has catchword 'Phillippus.'

Cited in:

Evans 12009

OCLC:

182070592