A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same in jurisdiction, office, dignity, order, and degree, by divine law and institution, and their disparity to be a meere humane ordinance long after the Apostles times : and that the name of a bishop is onely a title of ministration, not dominion, of labour not of honour, of humility, not of prelacy, of painefullnesse not of lordlinesse, with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--Bishops--Temporal power--Early works to 1800.

Church of England.

Church of England--Controversial literature--Puritan authors--Early works to 1800.

Bishops--England--Early works to 1800.

Bishops.

England.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 unnumbered pages, 23 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed [in Leiden? by W. Christiaens? and London] in the yeere, 1641.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

By William Prynne.

A reissue of the 1637 edition (STC 4788) with "The epistle to the reader" ((a)-(b)⁴) added and the two final digits of the date erased from t.p. and "41" substituted in MS. Variant 1: with the epistle, and date changed to 1645. Variant 2: with the epistle, and date changed to 1647.

The original edition was possibly printed in Leiden by W. Christiaens; the epistle was probably printed in London (STC).

Identified as STC 4788a on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1475-1640" reel 1166. Identified as Wing P3922 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 222.

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library.

"Early English books, 1475-1640": appears at reel 1166 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy) and at reel 1229 (Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library copy). "Early English books, 1641-1700": appears at reel 222 (Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library copy).

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1166:14, 1229:8) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 4788.

McAlpin Coll., II, pages 67.

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