A survey of the summe of church-discipline : wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice (1648)
Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647 · London : Printed by A. M. for John Bellamy · leaf 222
. GHAP. XIII. of the CatholickS^hurch as it is totum reprefentativum inthc af--fembling ofPafiors,^c, in a generall counceII, E have thu s difpatched the firft member of the-Controverfie, touching the firft fubjcc^ of Church-power, or the power of the Keyes, namely, itdoth not appertaine to the… … ajo Chap. 13. AS^rveyoftheSumme Part. i. zndiaffemhUngo^t\itPa(tors o^dWfeverall congregations,in a qenerall or oecumenlcall councell.And according to this acception of a Catholkkyifihle Churchythe whole co^jrfe and current ofMsiOicrRmherfoyds difpute in thefeverall anfvvers and explications that…
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