Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of Churches, Title page – Table of contents
II. DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE ANTIQUITY OF CHURCHES. Wherein is ſhewn, That the CHRISTIANS, In the Two Firſt CENTURIES, Had no ſuch Publick Separate Places for Worſhip, as the Papiſts generally, and ſome Proteſtants alſo Preſume, and Plead for.
LONDON: Printed for Tho. Parkhurſt at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapſide near Mercers-Chappel, 1698.
NOBILISSIMO DOMINO, Do. ROBERTO SOUTHWEL, Equiti aurato.
Summis virtutibus, perinde ac eruditione ornatiſſimo,
Longo rerum uſu, & Prudentia civili celeberrimo.
Magnis merito Officiis & Honoribus decorato.
Sub Carolo II.
Ad Aulam Portugalliae ſemel atque iterum, Ad Bruxellenſem quoque, & Brandeburgicam Legato.
Necnon Sanctiori Concilio a Secretis.
Gulielmo III. In Regno Hiberniae ab Epiſtolis.
Itemque Regalis Societatis Praeſidi. Hanc qualemcunque Diſſertationem, Quam humillime D. D. C. JOSEPHUS HILL.
THE CONTENTS.
SECT. 1. THE Queſtion ſtated.
SECT. 2. The firſt Argument, that the Apoſtles, and Primitive Chriſtians had no Publick ſeparate Places for Worſhip, taken from their Perſecution, vindicated and inforced.
SECT. 3. A ſecond Argument, from the defect of Proof for Churches ſo early.
SECT. 4. Our Adverſaries Proofs from Scripture Conſidered, and Anſwered.
SECT. 5. What kind of Places were uſed for Worſhip.
SECT. 6. Teſtimonies for our Opponents in the firſt Century anſwered.
SECT. 7. Teſtimonies in ſecond Century anſwered.
SECT. 8. As alſo in the third Century.
SECT. 9. Their Reaſons anſwered, and of Churches ſtanding and worſhipping towards the Eaſt.
SECT. 10. Several Conſiderations, for corroborating our Aſſertion.
SECT. 11. Teſtimonies of the Perſecution of Chriſtians, and how continued in the firſt Ages.
SECT. 12. Concerning the number of Martyrs.
SECT. 13. Teſtimonies that the Chriſtians had no Churches in the two firſt Centuries.
SECT. 14. And that they aſſembled frequently in the Night, and always in the moſt Private Places, during their Perſecution under the Heathens,