02201nam 2200421Ia 450 99639325980331620200824132845.0(CKB)3810000000006339(EEBO)2248565695(OCoLC)ocm12578937e(OCoLC)12578937(EXLCZ)99381000000000633919850920d1696 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Historical collections concerning church affairs[electronic resource] In which it is shew'd, from the ancient church historians, fathers, and other ecclesiastical writers, that the right to dispose of bishops, purely in relation to their charges, in their respective districts, was believed to be subjected in the clergy alone, as a separate independent body from the lay power, during the reigns of Constantine and Constantius, the two first Christian emperors: and that it was the judgment of the Catholick Christians, in those days, if the secular magistrate, or any irresistible party did assume the same right, upon any consideration whatever, that they were not to be recev'd nor obey'd in the execution of it. : To which are added, some occasional observations upon Dr. Hody's book, called, The case of the sees vacant, by an unjust and uncanonical deprivation, stated. /by a Presbyter of the Church of EnglandLondon, [s.n.]Printed in the year, 1696[36], 186 pAttributed to Simon Lowth. cf. NUC pre-1956.Table of contents: p. [22]-[36]Errata: p. [36]Item at reel 965:9 identified as Wing L3326 (number cancelled).Reproductions of originals in Cambridge University Library and Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.eebo-0216Church historyBishopsEarly works to 1800Church history.BishopsLowth Simon1630?-1720.1007130EAAEAAm/cUMIWaOLNBOOK996393259803316Historical collections concerning church affairs2398963UNISA