(ß:1g) §, t1aving flteiied thus, that Bilhopsand Presbyters were the . finite, and in the beginning called them by the fame naìne,he af- firms that [Omnes Apofiolorum jutcefBeres flint] that is, All thefe Brfh9ps. io. Ana he plainly adírms that the differenceis made by Ric hrs and Poverty : He is the greater that is the richer, and he is the inferiour that is the poorer. [ Potentia divitiarum Ç.r pats'pertatis humilitas, velfublimiorem, vel inreriorem Epi%epum facie. J Let any impartial Reader perufe the Epiftle it feif, and confiee- of thefe ten paffages, and then believe if he can, either, that L.eromdid imply that otherBifhops made thefe Alexandri- an Bifhops,and not the Presbyters, or that thefe Presbyters altered but thename, andgave not the Bifhop his new degree, or that this was not a thing that was now de novo in remedium fcbifmatis contrived or performed by them. There is evidence{ enóugh againft thefe conceits. Sett- 58. And further, for them that think it was but the, name that was now changed, I would ask them there few Qáefti- ons, (fuppofing them to be of their mind, that tell us that In feriour Presbyters were not inf}ituted in Scripture- times, and that it wasonlyPrelates that are called Bithops and Presbyters in'. Scripture.) is Is it not Prange, that when after Scripture, times, a NewOffice was made, it fhould nor have a new Name alto but fhould have the fame name with the old fuperióar office ? 2. And 'is it not Orange that both names of the fuperior Office; ( Bithop and Presbyter) fhould becommonly given to the new inferior Office, at the fzrfl: ? 3. And Prange that Ale Church; mutt afterward be put to change the names, and retrench or recall thename of a Bifhop from the new fort of Presbyters,and, confine it to the old, leaving (as old) thenameof a Presbyter,. to the new inferior Office. 4. And if in Scripture-times. (in the dayes When 106 wrote his Epifiles and Revelation ) the namesof Bifhop and Presbyter were both appropriated to Pre laces, there being no Inferiour Presbyters then inflitured ; and yet from ull'4r& the Evangelift, the .Alexandrian Presbyters brought back the nameof a Bifhop to the Prelates, retaining the name Presbyter thernfelves, , uero. How, long time Was there After the Infirutisnof Inferi,or Predyters till the regulating of Aar manes, front the dayes of Mark? Ab:at`thirty four years backward. Mark dyed in thç eighth year of Nero, and the Presbyters
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