Seca. 19. Tiús I fuppofe I may take, as granted defaflo from the Reverend Divine whom I have cited in the foregoing Difpu- tstion, t!,at faith ( Arrnotat. inArt, i i. ) that L Although this Titleof fl Çor:Qo; Elders,have been alto extended to afecondor -. der,in the Church; andnowit only in usefor them, tinder the name tf Presbyters ; yet in the Scripture-times it belonged principally, if notalone toBifhops ; there beingnoEvidence that anyofthatfecond order were then in(lituted ; though loonafter, before the writing cf Ignatius Epiffles there werefifth infituted in all Churches] So that he granteth that de faflo there were then no Presbyters but Bifhaps,and that they.were not infli uteri : and therefore Bifhops had no such Presbyters to Govern ; nor any Churches but a fingle Congregation : For one Bishop could guide but one Con - gation at once in publick worship ; and there could be noWor fh¡ppingCongregations( in the fence that nowwe-fpeakof)with- out fomePresbyter toguide them in performance of the worship. Se&. 20. So faith the fame Learned man, Differrat. 4. de E- pifçop. page zo8, 209. [ in gnibus rlures abfyi dubio EFifcopi Pure nulligy adhnc quos hodie dicirnus Presbyteri] And there- fore he alfo concludeth that the Churches were then Governed. bÿ., Bifhops aflitted by Deacons without Presbyters, inftancing in the cafe of theChurch of yersefalcm, Al. 6. and alledging the words,of Clem. Roman. Ka7d ycíEus rÿ ,r»e Knoicowiss Q9í. sauocs á ,p.xca5 a'Y?:J V, HS E71?7i0Z7öS 6 AiaR6V8f, 'QC (H®iv Grotius was confident that Clement was againit theirEpifcopacy, íhewed before)To the fame purpofe he citeth thewords of Cle- mens Alexandrines in Esefeb.of7ahn the Apofile.,concluding[Ex, his ratio con(lat quare fine Presbyterorum mention interveniente, .Epifcopis Diaconi immediate adjicianteer, quia fcilicet in fngelis Macedoniacivitatibus,gnamvis epifeoput effet,notedum Presbyteri confliteotifunt;DiaconittantumWgòs ubiq,8pifcopis adjnn- lis]Difertat.4 cap,I0.Sea]9,20,2t. Soalfo cap .a alibipalm. Se&. 21. Object. But though ,Ate factothere were. no Bi(hops ruling Presbyters then, nor ruling any more ,then aJingle WorJbip- ping Church, yet it was the IntentionoftheApoflles that they Jhould afterwards enlarge their Diocefs,and take the careofmany Chür- chea, and that they /ßoudd ordain that fort of fsobjell.P,resbytert. Char =moat iniltweii ;Scripture-attmet._4nú1 0you prove t<hti
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