An Account of the Ancient Division of the English Nation Into Hundreds and Tithings

by Granville Sharp

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784. ... The danger of regal influence, in episcopal eleSlicns, had been early foreseen and carefully guarded against, not orily by" the council of Paris, (last cited,) but also bythe primitive church and thereby the inade pope, A.D. 741.)'" Pipino regi Francoruri 1 N ' DULSIT, ul per Gallite rtgnum in episcepos ordinandos', "ubi sedes vacaffet aliqua, Nominaret." The peculiar care and caution of the primitive church, to preserve episcopal elections from undue influence, is worthy to be remarked, because it demonstrates the existence and pre eminence of the episcopal order in the church, (clearly diilinct and superior in office and degree to the order os presbytery,) from the apoltolic and,though a// /yj must certainly be presbyters, yet the constant re-ordination of every prejby.er after beingelecled or nominated to the office of a bishop (by the fame essential rites 1 f solemn prayer for the guidance and assistance Of the Holy Spirit,-with the impositions hands) demonstrates, that presbyters, though really pastors, and, in some respect, overseers of distinct stocks or congregations of christians, yet were not properly bshops (sn-ia-xon-ot) in the primitive ecclesiastical fense, until admitted to that dignity by the renewal of their sacred orders with the express designation to the episcopal for therstialrights of ordination, (prayer for the Holy Spirit and laying on of hands,) are the fame, for all the three degrees of the christian ministry, differing only in the de stgnation to their respective duties pf deacons, presbyters, and bistiops, the wickedness of this lawless pope, and fiis Indulgence to K.Pepin, is rendered the more conspicuous! The learned bisliop Beveridge gives a decided opinion that the 30th canon of the ancient codex, which h...

70 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2013

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[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically, the guy who started Sierra Leone because he was an abolitionist also believed that the whole idea of the township came from the Old Testament, which then lived on in the Magna Carta.