02727nam 2200421 n 450 99639185250331620200824121743.0(CKB)4940000000109334(EEBO)2240903930(UnM)99864934e(UnM)99864934(EXLCZ)99494000000010933419940104d1646 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Diotrephes catechised: or Sixteen important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures (contradistinct to civill) now eagerly pretended to and challenged by a divine right, by some over-rigid Presbyterians, and Independents[electronic resource] Propounded to both these dissenting parties, for the further discovery of truth; the preservation of the civill magistrates interest, and speedier comprising of our present unhappy controversies touching church government: on which many now so over-dote, as to place the whole kingdome of Christ and substance of religion therein, to repute all our former reformation, a meere nothing; the Church of Christ undone, and the exercise of their ministry, not onely fruitlesse but unlawfull, so as they cannot with good conscience continue, but threaten to relinquish it, in case they cannot obtain their demands, of such an exorbitant power, by Divine justitution, which Christ and his Apostles never claimed, exercised, nor themselves, nor predecessors, ever formerly enioyed, petitioned for, or pretended to in any age, but this. /Proposed published by a well-wisher to verity and unityLondon [s.n.]Printed anno Dom. 164612 pA well-wisher to verity and unity = William Prynne.Variant: has "civill) divine" in line 7 on title page.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Different from ye former"; "May 8th".Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018Church and stateEnglandEarly works to 1800Church and statePresbyterian ChurchEarly works to 1800Church polityEarly works to 1800Church and stateChurch and statePresbyterian ChurchChurch polityPrynne William1600-1669.198500Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996391852503316Diotrephes catechised, or, Sixteen important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures (contradistinct to civill) now eagerly pretended to and challenged by a divine right, by some over-rigid Presbyterians and Independents2303512UNISA