PA R T II. Reverend Mr. RichArd 43àxicër g3é pittie written about twelve Years after to the fame ClmrcYi, talleth the-Bithop there= -- of Betwixt which Bifhtip and the Presbytery of t) Church what 'an ha, moni- ous Content there was in the ordering the Church-Government, the fa'rise Ignati- us dash fully there declare by the Presbytery ( with (d) St. Paul) underflanding the Company of the reft rif the Presbytery or Elders who then had a Hand, not only in the delivery of the Doelrine andSacraments, but alfò in the Adminifirati- on of the Difcipline of Chrift. For further Proof whereof we have that known Tellimony of Tertullian in his general Apology for Chrillians. In (a).the Cburch are ufed Exhortations, Clia$ifements and divine Cenfures ; for Judgment is given (e) Iéidem with great Advice as among thole who are certain they are in the fight of God, Mon en,, and it is the chiefelt foefheiding of the Judgment that isto come, ifany Man hath hwitars fo offended that he beb)ni teed from the Communion of Prayer, an(töfthe Aífem net bly, and of all holy Fellow{hip. Ara dici- a,nain7 indicate,' magno cum pondere,-ut aped certo, deDei confpella fu'nmsumq{ futuri Judith prajudirium ere Si qua ira de- liquerit ut a communions oratiòrre er canventus 6'orris Sandi commerciiyelegatur, Feafie sat probati quigct fariorea, bó- norem Own non precie fed tee iim°mo adepti. Tert. Apo!. Cap. 39 The Prefdents that bear rule therein are certain approved Elders Who haveob tarred this Honour., and not by Reward, but by good Report. Who were nu C rcéc other (as he himfelf çlkwhere intimateth) but tho(e.fiom (f) whole stands they de alto,,,, ufed to receive the Sacrament of the Eueharift. ibus, Pentium inimus gmp. fi fu Ä9v idemdi corona mititirg Cap. p For with theBishop, who was the ChiefPrefident (and therefore ftyled by the fame Tertullian in another place Semmes (g) Sacerdos for diftin&íon-fake) the refs C') of the Difpenfors of the Wordand Sacraments were joined in the common Govern- di io ,a,a ment of the Church. And therefore in matters of Eeclehaílical Judicature, Cor- b °,leS ;;s relies., Bishop of Rome ufed the received Form of (h) gathering together the Pres- sern,.as bytery. Sacerdor ell quaEepáinf opus, de nt Prerb te,i tDìacoui Ide, de EaP hif m, cap. 07. (hj Omrz al. ad me pzrtako ptacuit trabi Prerbyterium, Cornet. . aped Cyprian EpiL 4G. Of what Perfons that didconfilt, Cyprian fufficiently declareth, when he with- , Eta- ed him to read his Letters to (i) the Ilourilhing Clergy that there did retitle or rertif(m. rule with him. a tecum prafideoti, Cyprian Epift. 55. ad Cornet. The prefence of the Clergy being thought to be fo requifite in mattersof Epif= copal Audience, that in the fourthCouncil of Carthage it was concluded (k) that.(k) Vt the Bishop might hear no Man'sCause, without the Prefence ofthe Clergy, which Epr¡°p we find alto to be inserted into the Canons of (l) Egbert, who was Archbishop of11" audi t Tank in the Sanano Times, and afterwards into theBody of the (m) Canon-Law it abfq; pre- felf. florid cle- sicorrnn fu- ram, 7roquin irrita erit f ntentsa Epifcopi "dericorup Nullatia c°nfirmetur, Concil. Cartlíag. 4. Cap. a3= (l)Encerption EgGer'ti, .. Cap. 43. (m).r.S;9u 7 Cap. Nullus. True it is, that in ourr.Church chip kind of Presbyterian Government hath been long difufed, yet tieing it fhll profeffeth that every Pallor hath aright to rulethe Church ( fromwhence, theName of Refikor alto was given at firil unto him) and to adminiller the Difcipline of Cfirill, as well as to ditpence the Do&rive andSa- craments. And the retrain,' of the Exercife ofthat Right proceederh only from the Culiomnow received in this Realm : No Man can doubt but by anotherLaw of the Land this Hindrance may he well removed. And how calmly this ancient Form of Government by the united Suffrages of the Clergy, might be revived again; 'and with what little thew of Alteration-the Synodical Conventions of the Puhlorsof every Penilemight be accorded, with the Prehidency of the Bilhops of each Diocefs andProvince, the indifferent Reader may quickly perceive by theper. .salalof the enfuing Propolitions. The Para. chial Go- vernment anfwera- In every Parish the Re&or or the incumbent Pallor, together with the Church- ble to the wardens and Sidemen, may every Week take notice of Inch as live fcandaloufl rch- y in Chu Seffion in that Scotland,
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