Author: Burnet, Gilbert.
Title: A VINDICATION OF THE ORDINATIONS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. In which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church. In answer to a paper written by one of the Churc of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders; and given to a person of quality.
Description: London : printed by E.H. and T.H. for R. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1677. 1st Ed. [64], 181, [1] p. Title page within double rule, decorative devices and initial letters. Some browning, paper detached from pastedowns, some leaves protruding to fore-edge, contemporary blind ruled sheep, some staining and repairs, loss to spine and slightly to upper joint. ¶ Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5939; ESTC R21679; Imprimatur to verso of title page, errata leaf preceeding text. Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), bishop of Salisbury and historian. ‘ ... Burnet was a thoroughgoing Erastian in the tradition of Hugo Grotius and John Selden, as already demonstrated by his Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland in 1673. Yet four years later in his Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England he opened the door to the possibility of resistance to the English king if he failed to govern 'legally and by the Councils and their Parliaments'. Thus in the 1670s he had put forward both a conservative and a radical theory of natural rights ...’ ODNB

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