(lIó) tla one making aChriflian, and the other a Minifter of a Chri- {than. See Apsil. inScotel. in4.fent. d.7. g.a. pag. 816. of Con- firmation. See. 55. It is only the Minor therefore that will hold difpute, which I prove from the well known words of Hierom to Eva- grins (which Bifhop 0/bertold me he alleadged toKing Charts at the7fleofWight to this end, whenhe was asked by him for an inflameof PresbytersOrdaining) [ .,isodautem pollea onus eleïlus ell , qu cateris praponeretur, in fchifmatis remedium fathom ell, ne urnufguifgue ad (e trahens Chri(li Ecclefiam rum - pe7et. Nano &Alexandria a MarcoEvangelifla ufguead Hera- clans & Dionyfium, Epifcopos, Presbjteri Temper ninon ex fe eleftum, in excelfrori "grade collocation, Epifcopum nominabant : gssomodo f exercitus Imperatorem faciat : aut Diaeoni eligant de fe, 'guem indufirium noverint , & eAlrchidiaconum voceset. Presbyters then made the firft Bifhops at lexandriá. Se& 56. To this it is anfwered, that it was only Eletlion of Bifhops that Hieromafcribeth to the Alexandrian Presbyters, and not Ordination of them ; for that Was done by forme other Bifhops andthat it is Ordination that makes a man a Bifhop. Seek, 57. To this I reply : r . Hierom here undertakes to tell ass, how Bifhops weremade at Alexandria ; but maketh not the lean mention of other Ordination or Confecration, then thefe words exprefs as done by the Presbyters : And therefore till they prove it, we muff tae the affirmation of another Ordination to bebut the groundiefs prenmp:ion of the Affcrtors, Z. Bierom doth.purpofely bring this asan argument, toprove the identity firf , and the neernefs afterward, of.Bifhops and Presbyters, that [ Presbyters madeBifhop which would have been no argument, if it was not Presbyters but Prelates that made them, and if the Presbyters only chofe them ; for, 3. The people may choofea Bifhop, as well as the Presbyters, and ordinarily did it : and yet this proverb not that thepeople werebeer the Bifhop in degree; that which the people themfelves may do, and frequently did, is not the only thing that Ilierom here a- fcribeth to the Presbyters but fuck is the Eie6tion of a Bifhop therefore, &c. q.. It is the Original or firfl making of Pre= Wes at Alexandria that Hierom here fpeaks of; which he thews Was from the Presbyters confine, This appearethplainly in his words
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