(ZI9) Presby ters' made Arianus Bifhopafter his death, whocontinu- ed twenty two years, even from the eighthof Nero, to the fourth of Domitian, as Enfeb ins in Iliffor.Ecclef.l.2.cap.23. 6- l4.3. cap. 12. & in Chronic. & Hieronym.in Catalog. & ex llii tither AnnolVo1.2. adan. Dom.67. pag.677. And Helvicus andothers are veer the fame time And laith Helvicus, 7obn wrote the Revelations about the fourteenth year of Domitien, and wrote his Gofpel about the ñrft year of his Succeffor Nerva. So that Mark dyed about thirty fix years (or thirty four at leafl) be- fore ?am wrote his Gofpel ; fo that here youhave your choice, whether you will believe, that fubjeâ Presbyters did regulate the names of themfelves and Bifhops, and diddeft (ormake, Bill-lops thirty fist years before they were inflituted themfelves or whether you will believe, that }et at the death of Mark, therewere no inferior Presbyters atAlexandria, and fono fupe- rior Bifhops, forall this that Hierom doth report. Se&.. 59 As for the Epifcopal,Divines that diffent from the 'Principle of the forecited Learned Author `who faith that there is 'no evidence that any of the fecond fort of Presbyters were inflituted inScripturetimes) I neednot deal with them in this Difputation : for all of them that ever I yet met with, do grant the validity of Presbyters Ordination, and the truthof the Re- formed Churchesand their Minifiry, and Ordinances : otherwife it were eafieenough to vindicate all there from themalto, if they denyed them. Seel. 6o. Argument 1.8. Ad hominem. If the late Englilh Prelates had alawful call to their Prelacy, then much more have Mimlters Ordainedby Presbyters a lastull call to their Minifiry. But the Prelates fay that:they had a lawful( Call to their Prelacy: therefore, &c. The reafonofthe Con'equence (which onlywill be deny ed ) is, i Becaufe the Presbyters are Ordained to an Office that is of Chrifis f nfiitution ; but the Prelates are Confe- crated to an Office that isnör 9f,Chri is Inflitution, but againft it, and againft the light of Nature (in raking on them the im- poffible Government of an hundred or many hundred Churches) as was fhewed in t1 a torrrer Difputation. 2. Be- caufe the Prelates hold ao uninterrupted Succeffion of Legiti- mate Ordination necef%ry to tl. 3eirg of their Prelacie ( means fuch asnowwe dilpnte againli, hold this) but fo4o not if2 tge
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