A Review of the Letters of the Late Rev John Bowden Dd Professor of Moral Ph
A Review of the Letters of the Late Rev John Bowden Dd Professor of Moral Ph
James Wilson
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Bowden, consisted in their taking the liberty '* of ordaining without the license of the cit^v Bishops, to whom they were subjected by the cmnons of the church. '' While tfae ostensible motive^ to 76 suppress the CJiorepiscojv^ icas, to prevent the " multi- plication of Bishops ill obscure villages, which would make Bishops cheap.^^ But why are these canons called the canons of the church? Had the Laity, or tlie Pres- byterSf or the Chorepiscopi^ or tlie villn^e churches, any voice in their ena...ction? There is no reason to suppose they had, but there is ample reason to believe, they were the decrees of the city Bishops alone ; becau^^e of such, the ecclesiastical councils were composed, which claimed the exclusive right of enacting canons for the church, [t therefore, was under the s/if'pr tyranny, of laws, enacted, judged upon and enforced, by self-created, deliberative assemblies, composed of ambitious prelates, that the vill ige churches and their Bishops, were thus unjustly deprived of their unalienable rights and prerogiiives.
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