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So that Bishops are Successors in the Office of Apostleship, accord-
ing to the general Tenet of Antiquity
SECTION XI.
And particularly of St. Peter.
SECTION XII.
And the Institution of Episcopacy, as well as the Apostolate, ex-
pressed to be Divine, by primitive Authority. .
SECTION XIII.
In pursuance of the Divine Institution, the Apostles did ordain
Bishops in several Churches
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So that Episcopacy is, at least, an Apostolical Ordinance; of the
same Authority with many other Points generally believed.
SECTION XX.
And was an Office of Power and great Authority
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SECTION XXI.
Not Lessened by the Assistance and Counsel of Presbyters .
SECTION XXII.
And all this hath been the Faith and Practice of Christendom
SECTION XXIII.
Who first distinguished Names, used before in common
SECTION XXIV.
Appropriating the word Episcopus' or Bishop to the Supreme
Church-officer
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SECTION XXV.
Calling the Bishop, and Him only, the Pastor of the Church
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There being a peculiar Manner of Ordination to a Bishopric
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SECTION XXXI.
To which Presbyters never did assist by imposing Hands
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SECTION XXXII.
For Bishops had a Power distinct and superior to that of Pres-
byters. As of Ordination
And Confirmation.
SECTION XXXIII.
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SECTION XXXIV.
And Jurisdiction. Which they expressed in Attributes of Authority
and great Power
SECTION XXXV.
Requiring Universal Obedience to be given to Bishops by Clergy
and Laity
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SECTION XXXVI.
Appointing them to be Judges of the Clergy and Spiritual Causes
of the Laity
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Forbidding Presbyters to leave their own Diocese, or to travel,
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And the Bishop had Power to prefer which of his Clerks he pleased 192
SECTION XLI.
Bishops only did vote in Councils, and neither Presbyters nor People
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SECTION XLII.
And the Bishop had a Propriety in the Persons of his Clerks
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So that the Government of the Church by Bishops was believed
necessary
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SECTION XLVI.
For they are Schismatics, that separate from their Bishop
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And Heretics
SECTION XLVII.
SECTION XLVIII.
And Bishops were always in the Church, Men of great Honour
SECTION XLIX.
And trusted with Affairs of Secular Interest
SECTION L.
And therefore were enforced to delegate the Power, and put others
But they were ever Clergymen, for there never were any Lay Elders
in any Church-Office heard of in the Church
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TITLES OF THE APOLOGY FOR AUTHORIZED AND
SET FORMS OF LITURGY.
The Author's Preface to the Apology for Authorized and Set Forms
A Letter from Jeremy Taylor, D. D., addressed to Bishop Leslie
An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy
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Question I.
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Question II.
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TITLES OF THE ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ.
A Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying, with its just Limits PAGE
and Temper
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SECTION I.
Of the Nature of Faith, and that its Duty is completed in believing
the Article of the Apostles' Creed
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SECTION II.
Of Heresy, and the Nature of it; and that it is to be accounted
according to the strict Capacity of Christian Faith, and not in
Opinions speculative, nor ever to pious Persons
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SECTION III.
Of the Difficulty and Uncertainty of Arguments from Scripture, in
Questions not simply necessary, not literally determined
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