A Vindication of the Deprived Bishops, Asserting Their Spiritual Rights Against a Lay-deprivation, Against the Charge of Schism, as Managed by the Late Editors [i.e. Humphrey Hody] of an Anonymous Baroccian MS [ascribed to Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus]. In Two Parts ... To which is Subjoined the Latter End of the Said MS. Omitted by the Editors ... [By Henry Dodwell].


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A vindication of the deprived bishops, asserting their spiritual rights against a lay-deprivation, against the charge of schism, as managed by the late editors of an anonymous Baroccian ms. In two parts. I. Shewing, that though the instances collected in the said ms. had been pertinent to the editors design, yet that would now have been sufficient for obtaining their cause. II. Shewing, that the instances there collected are indeed not pertinent to the editors design, for vindicating the validity of the deprivation of spiritual power by a lay-authority


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