The Preface. it bus hifcepixditus fit ornamentis, Religione erga De- um , & in homines benignitate Et Epift. 49. p 203. [ Sed velim omnes noílros facerdotes omnino, qui Galatiam incolunt, vel minis impellas, vel ratione perfuadeas, ut fint honefti ; vel facerdotali minifierio abdices, fi non una cum uxoribus, liberis, & famulis Diis colendis fedulo animos attendant Deinde fa- cerdotem quemque hortare ne accedat ad fpeetacula, neve in taberna bibat, neu' artem aliquam aut opificium turpe infameve exerceat. Et qui tibi in his rebus mo- remgerunt, eis honorem tribuito : qui autem reCtlunc expellito. ] Leg. & fragm. Epiff. 62. We crave your leave to rife the Presbyters as firtElly as Julian did thefe Priefis, and toexpelt as much pietyand Jobriety in them ; and that you will rot condemn allthofefor Puritanifm,that will not be werfa then this Apotllate Pagan. And for Difcipline , could we have any from your Epifcopacy worth the naming, we mould be the more re- concilable to it : But it bath not been, nor it cannot be. Common drunkards that were for twenty or thirty years together drunk ufually once or twice a week, and abundance propbane in other kinds, were theRated members ofthis Parifii Church wherenow I live, in the Beiops dayes ; and were fafer fror any trouble then the Puritans among them that would not imitate them. Let me here mind you of two of the following Arguments, whichperfwaâe us that your rrelacy is not of God, becaufe it is deflruelive o f Dif cipline. z: Yrhen Epifcopacy was fill known in the Church, every Presbyterie, or Confeffus Piesbyterorum had a 8iep ; and every Tresbyter had right to be a member of fame fuch Presbyterie. And ferioufly wouldyou have all the Presbyters in a Diocefs to be a Presbyterie, where your Bijhop muff preide for the ordinary Government of the (c 3) Diocefs
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