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.

Title

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.

Author

Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.

Publication

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 May 14, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The causes of the continuance of these Contentions concerning Church-Government.
• THE FORME OF GOVERNMENT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: And first, under MOSES.
  • subpart
    • The forme of the Ecclesiastical government under MOSES.
  • The forme of government under JOSHUA.
  • The forme of Government under DAVID.
  • The forme of government under NEHEMIAH:
  • [A briefe Recapitulation of the degrees obser∣ved under the government of the Old Te∣stament: with an accommodation thereof unto the New.]
  • Why it may bee.
• THE FORME OF CHURCH-GOVERNMENT in the New Testament: and first in the dayes of our Saviour CHRIST.
  • [The forme of government, used in the time of the APOSTLES.]
  • OF DEACONS.
  • OF EVANGELISTS.
  • OF PRIESTS.
  • OF BISHOPS.
  • Of the PERSONS,[that exe∣cuted these Offices.]
  • [Of the promiscuous use of their NAMES.]
  • [The necessary use of the BISHOPS office, and the charge commit∣ted to him.]