(z,r2) Ep file unto this Church in a peculiar manner Jileth the Angel of the Church of Ephelus. Anti Ignatius in another .EpiIIle written about twelveyears afterunto the faeneChurch, caller') theBishop thereof. Betwixt the Bt/hop and the Pref. byterie of that Church what an harmonious content there was in the ordering of the Church ç'overnrnent the fame Igna i'ss Both fully there declare, by the `Preibyterie with Sr. Paul , esnderflanding the Community ofthe refl of the Tresby tars or Elders who then hada handnot only in the delivery:of the Do$rioeand'acraments, but alfo in the Adminifiration of Difciplineof Chrif . Forfurtherproof ofwhich the have that knownTellimony ofTertulÏìan ieihù General Apology for Chriflians In the . Church areufed exhortations, chafiife- menes and divine cenfure , for judgement isgivenwithgreat advice as among chofe who are certain they are in the fight of God; and et is the chieftfi foreíheocing of the ytdgtment which is to come if any man have so o{fended that he be da- nishedfrom the Community of "Prayer, and of theo...lern- 6ly , and of all holy fellowship. The Prefdents that bear rule therein are certain approvedElders, who have obtained this honour not by Reward, but by good report who were no other (ashe himfelf intimates) elfewhere, but chofe from whole hands they rated to receive the Sacrament oftheEucha- rili. For with the Bifbop who was the chief Prefident, ( and thét'efore filledby the fameTertullian in another place, furn- mus Sacerdos for difiiníiion fake) the refs ofthe difpenferr of the Word and Sacraments, joined in the commonGovern most oftheChurch ; and therefore where itsmatters of Ec- clefiaflical judicature, Cornelius Bi,flop recieved form ofgathering g f=Romeof*hat f .fg to ether thePresdyterie, of *hat perfens thatdidconfifi, Cyprian fujficiently dectareth, whenhe wi/heth him toread his Letters: to the ours i n S was Clergy y there didpre f de or rule with him. . BYe t nee f clergj beingthotsght firéquifte in matters f D`f°palaudience t in the f art Council of Carihaev it ap tthe Bishopmighthem: no Mans eau ut prelim, cg 6"that othervs f a theB fxtence lhould b, e theClergy ; and void anlè f it were confirmed by thepref neeofthe rr__
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