Historical collections, concerning district-successions, and deprivations, during the three first centuries of the Church . In which it is shew'd, From the Church History, Fathers, Councils, and Ecclesiastical Writers of that Time, that the right to place and remove bishops, purely as to their Spiritual Charges in their respective Districts, was then vested in the Catholick bishops only; and that the Church at that Time did not believe, that the Secular Magistrate, or any Worldly, Irresistible Power, or Power Clerical, if Un-Catholick, ought either to assume that Right, or to be obeyed in the Execution of it. By a presbyter of the Church of England.

Date:

1713