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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Well there’s your original men of your Magisterium.

Thanks for the reference, that’s interesting history. Found a bit on wiki also, that includes:

The Assembly consisted of 30 laymen (10 lords and 20 commoners) and 121 divines or clergymen. The clergy were selected to represent four separate groups:

The episcopalians (who supported an episcopacy) included such figures as James Ussher, bishop of Armagh. The episcopalian group usually did not attend the sessions, because the king had not authorized them.

The presbyterians (who supported an assembly-based structure found in Puritanism), the largest group, included figures such as Edward Reynolds, George Gillespie and Samuel Rutherford.

A small group of Independents (of the various Congregationalist views) were present and had the support of Oliver Cromwell, and these included Thomas Goodwin.

The Erastian representatives, such as John Lightfoot, who favored the state’s primacy over the ecclesiastical law.


9,540 posted on 10/21/2007 8:08:57 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr; OLD REGGIE

Nope. See 9,500. (meant to bump you, too, Young Reggie.


9,551 posted on 10/21/2007 9:30:47 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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