Excerpt from Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing a Concise History of the Grecian States, and a Short Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Celebrated Greek Authors From this period we find him giving assiduous atten' tion to his professional duties, and drawing forth those stores of learning which he had laid up in early life, to illustrate and defend the principles and discipline of the established church. In 1707, he gave to the public A Discourse upon Church Government, 8vo. This t1eat1se, undertaken with the View of establishing the divine origin of episcopacy, contams an account of the constitution, government, and rights Of the Ch1istian Church, as they are described in the scrip tures, and by the fathers of the three first centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.