A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same in jurisdiction, office, dignity, order, and degree, by divine law and institution, and their disparity to be a meere humane ordinance long after the Apostles times; and that the name of a bishop is onely a title of ministration, not dominion, of labour not of honour, of humility, not of prelacy, of painefullnesse not of lordlinesse, with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary.

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  • A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same in jurisdiction, office, dignity, order, and degree, by divine law and institution, and their disparity to be a meere humane ordinance long after the Apostles times; and that the name of a bishop is onely a title of ministration, not dominion, of labour not of honour, of humility, not of prelacy, of painefullnesse not of lordlinesse, with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary.
  • Catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one
People / Organizations
Imprint
[London]: Printed [in Leiden? by W. Christiaens? and London] in the yeere, 1641.
Publication year
1641-1641
ESTC No.
S122412
Grub Street ID
141958
Description
[22], 23, [1] p. ; 4⁰
Note
Anonymous. By William Prynne.

First leaf is blank.

A reissue of the 1637 edition (STC 4788) with "The epistle to the reader" ((a)-(b)?) added and the two final digits of the date erased from t.p. and "41" substituted in MS. Variant 1: with the epistle, and date changed to 1645. Variant 2: with the epistle, and date changed to 1647.

The original edition was possibly printed in Leiden by W. Christiaens; the epistle was probably printed in London (STC).
Uncontrolled note
Listed in Wing? and retracted in Wing?, but with the added epistle this is a bona fide reissue situation, and as such valid for Wing. 1637 copies should be matched to S122410, but not the later ones