02735nam 2200409 n 450 99639288400331620200824121635.0(CKB)4940000000112551(EEBO)2264190447(UnM)99872305e(UnM)99872305(EXLCZ)99494000000011255119850718d1646 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 Christian magistrates interest, and speedier comprimising [sic] 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 W. Prynne a well-wisher to verity and unityThe second edition with some enlargements.London Printed for Michael SparkesAnno Dom. 164616 pAnnotation on Thomason copy: "May 26th".Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library (Early English books) and the British Library (Thomason Tracts).eebo-0158Church 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-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996392884003316Diotrephes 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