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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93

1101

SECTION XXV.

Calling, the Bishop, and Him only, the Pastor of the Church.......

106

108

To which the Presbyterate was but a Degree

SECTION XXX.

There being a peculiar Manuer of Ordination to a Bishoprick

SECTION XXXI.

To which Presbyters never did assist by imposing Hands

SECTION XXXII.

For Bishops had a Power distinct and superior to that of Pres-

byters. As of Ordination...

120

127

And Confirmation

SECTION XXXIII.

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

143

151

154

Appointing them to be Judges of the Clergy, and Spiritual Causes of

the Laity

SECTION XXXVII.

159

Forbidding Presbyters to officiate without Episcopal License. 180

SECTION XXXVIII.

Reserving Church-Goods to Episcopal Dispensation...

SECTION XXXIX.

Forbidding Presbyters to leave their own Diocese, or to travel, with-

out Leave of the Bishop

190

191

SECTION. XL.

And the Bishop had Power to prefer which of his Clerks he pleased

192

Bishops only did vote in Councils, and neither Presbyters nor People

203

SECTION XLII.

And the Bishop had a Propriety in the Persons of his Clerks

210

So that the Government of the Church by Bishops was believed

For they are Schismatics, that separate from their Bishop

And Heretics

SECTION XLVII.

223

SECTION XLVIII.

And Bishops were always, in the Church, Men of great Honour

241

SECTION XLIX.

And trusted with Affairs of Secular Interest

SECTION L.

And therefore were enforced to delegate the Power, and put others

in Substitution

SECTION LI.

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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266

269

TITLES OF THE APOLOGY FOR AUTHORIZED AND SET
FORMS OFLITURGY.

The Author's Preface to the Apology for Authorized and Set Forms

of Liturgy...

283

A Letter from Jeremy Taylor, D.D., addressed to Bishop Leslie...

315

A Discourse on the Liberty of Prophesying, with its just Limits and

Temper

439

SECTION I.

Of the Nature of Faith, and that its Duty is completed in believing

the Articles of the Apostles' Creed

....

443

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

SECTION III.

Of the Difficulty and Uncertainty of Arguments from Scripture, in

Questions not simply necessary, not literally determined •

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GENERAL DEDICATION

TO THE

POLEMICAL DISCOURSES.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

AND TRULY NOBLE

CHRISTOPHER LORD HATTON,

BARON HATTON OF KIRBY,

PRIVY COUNSELLOR AND COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD TO
HIS LATE MAJESTY,

AND KNIGHT OF THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH.

MY LORD,

WHEN we make books and publish them, and by dedications implore the patronage of some worthy person, I find by experience that we cannot acquire that end, which is pretended to by such addresses: for neither friendship nor power, interest or favour, can give those defences to a book, which it needs: because the evil fortune of books comes from causes discernible indeed, but irremediable; and the breath of the people is like the voice of an exterminating angel, not so killing but so secret. But that is not all; it is also as contingent as the smiles of an