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A summarie view of the government both of the old and new testament whereby the episcopall government of Christs church is vindicated out of the rude draughts of Lancelot Andrewes, late Bishop of Winchester : whereunto is prefixed (as a preamble to the whole) a discovery of the causes of the continuance of these contentions touching church-government out of the fragments of Richard Hooker.

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A summarie view of the government both of the old and new testament whereby the episcopall government of Christs church is vindicated out of the rude draughts of Lancelot Andrewes, late Bishop of Winchester : whereunto is prefixed (as a preamble to the whole) a discovery of the causes of the continuance of these contentions touching church-government out of the fragments of Richard Hooker.
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Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
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Oxford :: Printed by Leon Lichfield ...,
1641.
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Church polity.
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"A summarie view of the government both of the old and new testament whereby the episcopall government of Christs church is vindicated out of the rude draughts of Lancelot Andrewes, late Bishop of Winchester : whereunto is prefixed (as a preamble to the whole) a discovery of the causes of the continuance of these contentions touching church-government out of the fragments of Richard Hooker." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25413.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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The forme of government under NEHEMIAH:

OF whom and Esdras it is recorded, that they did all according to Moses institution. (Ezr. 6.18. Nehem. 10.34, 36.)

There was then

  • Eliashib.Nehem. 3.1.
  • Seraiah.11.11.
  • Zabdiel.11.14.

The Courses were then but XXII. (Neh. 12.12.)

There was then

  • Vzzi. (Neh. 11.22.)
  • Iezrahiah. (Neh. 12.42.)
  • Shallum. (1. Chron. 9.17.)

Under Zabdiel, at his hand

  • Adaiah. Nehem. 11. ver. 12, 13.
  • Amasai. Nehem. 11. ver. 12, 13.

Vnder Vzzi

  • Shemaiah. Neh. 11.15, 16.
  • Shabbethai. Neh. 11.15, 16.
  • Iozabad. Neh. 11.15, 16.

Vnder Iezrahiah

  • Mattaniah. Neh. 11.17.
  • Bakbukiah. Neh. 11.17.
  • Abda. Neh. 11.17.

Vnder Shallum

  • Akkub. 1. Chron. 9.17. Nehem. 11.19.
  • Talmon. 1. Chron. 9.17. Nehem. 11.19.

So that there was

  • 1. The High Priest.
  • 2. The second & third, Overseers of the Priests.
  • 3. The Princes of the Priests.
  • 4. The Priests.
  • 5. The Overseer of the Levits.

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  • 6. The Princes of the Levits.
  • 7. The Levits.
  • 8. The Heads of the Nethinims.
  • 9. The Nethi∣nims: of the Gibeonits.
  • 9. The Nethi∣nims: of Salomons servants.
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