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Downame, George, d. 1634

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• Downame, George, d. 1634 -- Two sermons
• Downame, George, d. 1634 -- Two sermons. Part 2

• An ansvvere to a sermon preached the 17 of April anno D. 1608, by George Downame Doctour of Divinitie and intituled, A sermon defendinge the honorable function of bishops wherein; all his reasons, brought to prove the honorable function of our L. Bishops, to be of divine institution; are answered and refuted. ([Amsterdam] : Imprinted [by Jodocus Hondius and Giles Thorp], anno 1609) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A defence of the sermon preached at the consecration of the L. Bishop of Bath and VVelles against a confutation thereof by a namelesse author. Diuided into 4. bookes: the first, prouing chiefly that the lay or onely-gouerning elders haue no warrant either in the Scriptures or other monuments of antiquity. The second, shewing that the primitiue churches indued with power of ecclesiasticall gouernment, were not parishes properly but dioceses, and consequently that the angels of the churches or ancient bishops were not parishionall but diocesan bishops. The third, defending the superioritie of bishops aboue other ministers, and prouing that bishops alwayes had a prioritie not onely in order, but also in degree, and a maioritie of power both for ordination and iurisdiction. The fourth, maintayning that the episcopall function is of apostolicall and diuine institution. (London : Printed by Thomas Creed, William Hall, and Thomas Snodham, 1611), by George Downame (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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