Diotrephes catechised: or Sixteen important questions. touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures (contradistinct to civill) now eagerly pretended to and challenged by a divine right, by some over-rigid Presbyterians, and Independents. Propounded to both these dissenting parties, for the further discovery of truth; the preservation of the civill Christian magistrates interest, and speedier comprimising [sic] of our present unhappy controversies touching church-government: on which many now so over-dote, ... to repute all our former reformation, ... and the exercise of their ministry, ... in case they cannot obtain their demands of such an exorbitant power, by Divine jnstitution [sic], which Christ and his Apostles never claimed, exercised, nor themselves, nor predecessors, ever formerly enioyed, petitioned for, or pretended to in any age, but this. Proposed; published by W. Prynne a well-wisher to verity and unity.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1646
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257887.5
Summary
Bibliographic description
16 p. ; 4to. Running number: 1365. Bound with six other tracts by Prynne. Contents list written on first front endleaf in late seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front pastedown: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys], continued "all. [underlined]". Numbers inscribed on front pastedown: [1] nineteenth-century(?) pencil "26/2"; [2] eighteenth-century "38"; and pricecode(?) in pencil on first front endleaf: "5-8". Binding: late seventeenth-century dark brown calf over boards (worn) with double blind-lined border; five raised bands; endbands; sewn on five supports, laced-in; pastedown and endleaves; red and blue marbled leaf edges. In book shoe.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)