Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Something of this kind was projected in archbishop Usher’s plan for the reduction of episcopacy, by which he would have moderated it in such a manner, as to have brought it very near the presbyterian government of the Scotch church; the weekly parochial vestry answering to their church-session; the monthly synod, to be held by the Chorepiscopi, answering to their presbyteries; the diocesan synod to their provincial, and the national to their general assembly. The meeting of the dean and chapter, practised in the church of England, is but a faint shadow of the second, the ecclesiastical court of the third, and the convocation of the fourth. ...
For more, see Philip Doddridge on James Ussher’s scheme for the reduction of episcopacy.
For more, see Philip Doddridge on James Ussher’s scheme for the reduction of episcopacy.
