Czo3) themfelves ) not only fuck Bifhops as were in the Apof}les days when therewas no fubjeâ Presbyters , but alto fuch Bifhops as were in /patio.; daies, when the fired Prefident or Bifhop had many Presbyters to whom he was the Prefident or Mode- rator. Se&, 5 7. Yea if you will make his Negative voice Effential to a Bifhop ( which Moderate Epifcopal men deny) yet com- monly this agreeth to fuch Parifh Bifhops as have Curates un der them : For in the Presbyterie they have ordinarily a Nega- riveVoice. Seâ.:8. Yea where there are no fuch Presbyteries with a Prefident, it is yet enough to prove him a Bifhop, that hebath -Deacons under him, or but one Deacon: faith Dr. H H. An- notat. in AEEI. i t . b. [ When the Gofpel ryas firft preached by the Apoflles , andbutfew converted, they ordained in everyCityand Region, no more bast a Bifbop,and one or more Deacons to attend him, therebeing at the prefent fofmall fiore ore of which to take more, andfofmall needof Ordaining more ] Seâ. a 9. Argument 6. The Moderator or Prefident of ma= nyPalors ofparticular Churches affembled,mayOrdain,and his Ordination is. Valid. But fuch a Moderator or Prefident is or- dinarilyor frequently One in our Ordinations : therefore they are Valid. TheMajor is granted bymany ofthe Diffenters,and all their principles, I. think, do infer it : Tor fuch a one is aBi- fhop, not onlyoftheApofiolical inf}itution : Nor only fuch as was in Ignatius days,but fuch an Archbifhop as next afterward fprungup. When it is not only one Church and its Presbyters that are under him; but thePresbyters (or Bifhops) ofmany Churches that heis Moderator or Prefident of, methinksthofe that are for the highefi Prelacy, fhould notdeny the Validity of his Ordination. Seâ. 20'. But two thingswill be hereobjeaed : The one is, that he Was not confecrated to this Prefdency or Moderatorfhip, by Bi(ops. Towhich I anfwer, r . That Confecration is not of Neceffity to fucha Bifhop according to the principles of Epif. copal Divines; it being no new Office or Order that they are exalted to, but a newDegree; Ordination (whichwas recei- ved when they weremade Presbyters) may fuffice, and is not to be iterated. 2. The Eleßionof the Presbyters ferved (as Ri- 'rom tefiifyeth) in the ChurchofAlexandria: therefore it may Dd z ferve
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