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Elders (Church officers)

Leader in the field of some Christian denominations

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    The sameness of bishops and presbyters, as to order, tho not as to dignity, no less briefly than clearly prov'd: and likewise, that laymen are as essentially the church as clergymen; having as much authority to declare the Traditions of the Church, and consequently to determine Controversies. With a defence of universities against the Pope and bishops, &c. in a letter from a doctor of the Sorbonne to the Bishop of Autun. Translated from the French, and humbly dedicated to his Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury

    | Date: 1717
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    A plea for scripture ordination: or, ten arguments from scripture and antiquity proving ordination by presbyters without bishops to be valid. By J. Owen Minister of the Gospel. To which is prefixt an epistle by the Reverend Mr. Daniel Williams

    Owen, James, 1654-1706. | Date: 1707

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