A suruay of the pretended holy discipline. Contayning the beginninges, successe, parts, proceedings, authority, and doctrine of it: with some of the manifold, and materiall repugnances, varieties and vncertaineties, in that behalfe

Title

A suruay of the pretended holy discipline. Contayning the beginninges, successe, parts, proceedings, authority, and doctrine of it: with some of the manifold, and materiall repugnances, varieties and vncertaineties, in that behalfe

Author

Bancroft, Richard, 1544-1610.

Publication

Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Wolfe [, Thomas Scarlet, and Richard Field],

1593.

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Puritans -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• The Contents of this Booke.
• CHAP. I. Howe vnder pretence of the Prophetes loue to Syon: some men would gladly set vp their owne fancies.
• CHAP. II. How, by whome, and where, the platforme of Presbytery Disci∣pline, was first deuised, and established.
• CHAP. III. By whose instigation, and how, the pretended Discipline of Gene∣ua hath enlarged her iurisdiction.
• CHAP. IIII. Our English Geneuaters vpon a better inquirie made: are grown to a great vncertaintie touching sondry pointes of the Gene∣uian platforme.
• CHAP. V. With what distraction, vncertaintie, diuersitie of iudgementes, pretence is made, that the Geneua Discipline is of very great antiquitie.
• CHAP. VI. The seekers of the pretended Discipline are not yet agreede, what name they should giue vnto their Hierarchicall parish-mee∣tinges.
• CHAP. VII. Of their vncertainty concerning the places where this pretended regiment should be erected.
• CHAP. 8. Of Bishops generally: of the pretended equalitie, of Pastors, or new parish Bishops, and how the chiefe impugners of Bishops beginne to relent.
• CHAP. IX. They disagree verie greatly concerning Doctors.
• CHAP. X. Their Aldermen must be men of good calling.
• CHAP. XI. Their disagreement about the name of their ruling associates.
• CHAP. XII. They cannot agree where to find their Elders qualities described.
• CHAP. XIII. Of their vncertaintie, whether their Elders be ecclesiasticall men, or lay men.
• CHAP. 14. Theyr disagreement concerning the continuance of theyr Elders in their office.
• Chap. XV. Their vncertaintie where to find the particular offices of theyr Aldermen.
• CHAP. XVI. Of their Aldermens ioynt-office with the Ministers in the electi∣on, abdication, and ordination of Ministers: and of their dis∣agreement about the same.
• CHAP. 17. Of their Aldermens ioynt office with the ministers, in binding, and loosing of sinnes, and of their disagreement therin.
• CHAP. XVIII. Of the first institution of the old Deacons: and of the disagree∣ment, about the new disciplinarie Deacons.
• CHAP. XIX. Of certaine widdowes, which are made Church officers: and of the disagreement, which is about them.
• CHAP. 20. Of the charge to bee imposed vpon euery parish, by meanes of the pretended Eldership.
• CHAP. XXI. Of their desire, that those thinges which haue beene taken by Sa∣criledge from the Church, might be restored againe to the maintenance of their Elderships.
• CHAP. XXII. They take from Christian Princes, and ascribe to their preten∣ded regiment, the supreme and immediate authority vnder Christ in causes Ecclesiasticall.
• CHAP. XXIII. In the oppugning of Princes authoritye in causes Ecclesiasti∣call, they ioyne with the Papists.
• CHAP. XXIIII. Their disagreement in suppressing the authoritie of Princes in church-causes, and in the aduancing of their ovvn.
• CAP. XXV. In vvhat causes more particularly, their elderships are to deale, as they pretend.
• CHAP. XXVI. Those things they reprooue as vnlawfull in others, they allow in themselues.
• CHAP. XXVII. How they deale with the auncient Fathers, Ecclesiasticall Hi∣stories and generall councels, when they are alledged against them.
• CHAP. XXVIII. Theyr dealing with all the new writers, and many reformed churches when they make against them.
• CHAP. XXX. How falsly they alleadge the auncient fathers, for their pretended parish Bishops and Elders.
• CAP. XXXI. Hovv and vvith vvhat disagreement they vvrest and misconster the scriptures, in the behalfe of their pretended discipline.
• CHAP. XXXII. What account the sollicitors for this pretended gouernment doe make each of other.
• CHAP. XXXIII. Of the prayse and disprayse of this pretended regiment.
• CAP. XXXIIII. Of their disagreement, concerning the ne∣cessitie of the Consistoriall gouernment.
• CAP. XXXV. Of the pretended commoditie that the elderships vvould bring vvith them, and of the small fruits that they bring sorth vvhere they are.
• Errata.