...with a great number of other ecclesiastics, subscribed this proposition, " that in the New Testaincnt there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions...deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops." Bat-net, ut supra, p. 324. Cranmer says : " In the New Testament, he that is appointed a bishop or...

...more than 3? civilians and divines, among whom were J3 bishops, Cranmer and others, affirms, .that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any...distinctions, in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and priests or bishops. It was also the opinion of archbishop Usher, that bishop and presbyter diHered...

...they followed undoubtedly the Example and Rites used in the Old Testament ; yet the truth is, that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any...Sacrament, but only of Prayer, and the Imposition of the Bishops hands. Thomas k Crum well. Rich. Cicestr. 'Thomas Cantuarien. Richardus Wolman. Edvardus Ebor....

...of Canterbury and York, eleven bishops, and many other doctors and civilians, it is asserted, " That in the New " Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or dis" tinctions in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of " priests or bishops." The same...

...is asserted, " That in the New " Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or dis" tinctions in orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of " priests or bishops.'' The same declaration occurs iu the book called " The Erudition of a Christian Man, composed " by the...

...period, which states, that "in the new testament there is no mention of any degree or distinction of orders, but only of deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops."* This declaration was signed by thirty-seven distinguished civilians and divines, and by thirteen bishops....

...Bishops, eight Archdeacons, and seventeen Doctors of Di- Ma "> folvinity, Canon and Civil Law, that " in the New Testament " there is no mention made of...Deacons or Ministers, and of " Priests or Bishops." It is altogether as wise and judicious a remark that he makes on Bishop Reginald Pecock, whom he in...

...seyn that " the Clergy that first was kunning and holy of life was * The trouthe is, that in the Newe Testament* there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in Orders, but onely of Deacons or Ministers, and of Priestes or Byshops. Nor there is any worde spoken of any other...

...archbishops, Cranmer and Lee, eleven bishops and twenty canonists, in which it is said, " the truth is that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in orders, but only of ministers or deacons, and of priests or bishops." The same thing is said almost in the same words "...

...of the same age, with a great number of other ecclesiastics, subscribed the proposition — " that in the New Testament there is no mention made of any degrees or distinctions in orders, but only deacons or ministers, and of priests or bishops." In perfect accordance with these sentiments is the...