'night make the Individuals afterwards. And Where is the proof that the Apoflles did infti- tute it ? If Ecclefiaftical generation imitate na- tural,the Bifhops would beget but their like men beget men ; fo Physicians make Phvficians, and fo Bifhops may beget Bifhops : But he that faith they could morally firft beget this other Species, moil prove it. Sett XVI. When Presbyters were firft diflinc frßm Bifhops , we fee no proof that it was as a diftindOffice or Order in fpecie, and not only as a díflintt degree and priviledge of men in the fame Office : Nor bath the Church of Rome it felf thought meet to determine this as de fide. but fuffereth its Dodors to hold the contrary Sed. XVII. It much confirmeth us in our judgment; that no mere Bifhop then had more Churches than one (as afore defcribed) when we find that Ignatius (whole authority Dr. Ha- mond Wert. conte Blondel: Laieth fo much of the caufe upon , and whom Bifhop Pierfon bath lately fo indutfriouíly vindicated) cloth expretly make ONE ALTAR, and ONE BISHOP with the Presbyters and Deacons, tei be the noteofa Church Vnity and Individuation. And that by óneAltar is meant oneTable ofCor . munion, or place where that Table Rood, is paft doubt with the judicious and imparrial.Whence learned Mr. yafcphMede doth argue as certaiiì that then a Bifhops Church was no other than suchas ufually communicated in one place. Yea, faith Ignatius, the Bifhop ínufl take notice and account of each perfon, even of Man f rvdnts and Maids (that they come to the Church). And this was the Bifhop áßf a Seat, that after, was lPatri-
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