| Author | Checkley, John, 1680-1754.
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| Title | A defence of a book lately re-printed at Boston, entituled, A modest proof of the order and government settled by Christ and his apostles in the church in a reply to a book entituled, Sober remarks on the modest proof, &c. In a letter to a friend ...
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| Published | Boston, Printed by T. Fleet, 1724.
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| General Note | Prince Society, Boston. Publications [v. 23]
A defence of the author's "Modest proof," written in reply to Edward Wigglesworth's "Sober remarks on a book lately re-printed at Boston, entituled, A modest proof ..." Boston, 1724.
The "Postscript" (p. [96]-114) is a reply to Jonathan Dickinson's "A defence of Presbyterian ordination in answer to a Modest proof ..." Boston, 1724.
"Animadversions upon two pamphlets, the one entituled, An essay upon that paradox, Infallibility may sometimes mistake [by Thomas Walter] The other, The ruling and ordaining power of Congregational bishops or presbyters defended [by Thomas Foxcroft] Which may serve as an appendix to the defence of a Modest proof. In a letter to a friend": p. [115]-127.
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| Subjects | Apostolic succession.
Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688-1747 Defence of Presbyterian ordination.
Episcopacy.
Foxcroft, Thomas. Ruling and ordaining power.
Walter, Thomas, 1696-1725. Essay upon that paradox, Infallibility may sometimes mistake.
Wigglesworth, Edward, 1693-1765. Sober remarks.
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 186 P957P v.23
mq139899: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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