[2;Ô9] chops, and Archbifhops, have fo much againft this S+ibfcription, as that to avoid prolixity, we will forbear reciting the particulars, any further than to tell you, that while a thoufand or many hundred Parifh Churches are all without any p:;irtieular appropriate Bfkops (great Towns and Villages) when in Ignatius's daces the Unity of each Church was known by having One Attar,,, and One Bjfrop, with the Presbyters and Deacons. And from detineth a Church to be Plebs unit4 Ep>fcopo; and confequently they are without the Difcipline and Pafforai overfight of fúch Bifhops3 and while all there Parishes are in the old fenfe become No Churches (for ubi Ep fcapurs, ¿bi Ec cle/la) but only Parts of a Diocefàn Church: And while theold f<<rm ofChurches, Presbyters and Biíhops is thus changed : And while one Bifhop bath novv more work of Difcipline ( betides Confirming and all his other work) than an hun- dred of the ableft and heft men can do ; and fo fuch Difcipline is neceffirily undone And while the C+fe is as if the Bifhop of Carthage had put down fix hundred neighbour-Bithups, and be- come the foie Bifhop of all their Churches ; or as ïfall the Schools in a Diocefs have but one Governing School matter, who had power to judge what Scholar to receive or to refufè : And while the Keys are to be exercifed by Lay-men, there will be unfatisfying things. 3. The Conformiffs are not agreed of the meaning of there Subfcriiptions and Oaths; force think that they covenant only to fubmit to then (though they diflike them :) But others think that it is allo to approve the Government. Some think that it is only Bi. ops that they are bound P t
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