(72) without mentioning any exceptedPresbyters belonging todiflant. Parifhes,It is apparent that the Bilhop then had ordinarily but one affembly. The fame may fayof the many Canons, that thewwhat the Presbyters are to do in the Church,, which imply his prefence But .I have mentioned many of them before. XV. Another evidence is , the cuflom of the Presbyters dwelling In The fame houfe with the Bilhop ( fingle ) as in a Colledge ; which not onlyin Hippo, but in very many other places was then ufed : and theydwelt near the Church , where thatwas not ufed (As when theyhad wives, or the Bilhop hadhis Epifcopam as the Concil.Turon. 2. callethher, and alloweth it. ) Tolet himfelf, de Sacerdotio lib. 5. cap. 4. n. rg. pag. 722. confeffeth this Laying, [ In ,Ecciefia Primitiva ufquead tempos ttuguflini Hieron. Epifcopum Clerum folitos vivere in communi : unde bona qua vel ex decimir, vel exfidelium devotions offerebantur, erant indivifa, fubdebantur difributioni Epifeopi; qua partim ipfi, partim Clero, partim fabrica, partim pauperibue obveniebant. Polka vero quando quifque per fe vixit, talia bona Avila funt in quatuor partes, prima Epifcopo fervata, fecunda Clero, tertia fabrica, quarta pauperibus. ] And lure that Church then was nobigger than that Colledge did officiate to. XVI. And that which thefe words of Jolet recite, is the next evidence, viz. The way,of maintenancein thole times. 1. They lived on Oblations moftly: :6f ells fee And there oblations are ever mentioned as offered but upon; One Altar. an excel- 2. Thefe Oblations were all brought to the Bilho s hands, and difiributed b Tent7ialt P y of-chin-6 him or his appointment. 3. TheFirft- fruits, andTythe that camenext were Benefices, allo in hishands. .4. And fo were all the Gifts , and all the Pradia or by Pad. Church glebe. 5. All thefe are mentioned as given to One Church only, tran¡iatpd and not many. 6. The diliribution was as aforefaid," Come fourfold, fome- byDr.Dcn- time three-fold ; of which Spalatenfrs reciteth the decrees fo fully, that I will ton confir- not tire the reader with reciting them. 7. And it was the Fabrica of One wing many Church only that the Bithop was to give the fourth part to maintain ( And dings joó e- rfaid, were many hundred fabricks more forgotten ? ) 8. And it was a prefint Cler Sto, and not men fetled along wayoff, that he was to make dittribution to. 9. And when he was tohave the firfl fourth part himfelf, who can think that this is mean t that men muff carry the fourth part of the Hay, and Corn, and Wood, and Pigs, &c. from all the Parithes through'fuch Diocefes as ours, and the fourth part of all the Glebe rents ; This would make the Bithoprick indeed feem to worldly minded men to be worth the venturing of their fouls for; And-they mull havefo many fcore orhundredbarns full, asmight tempt them to fay, Soul take thine safe, eat drink and.be merry, &c. But the .evidence (peak- ' eth plainly. XVII. Another evidence isthis : That when firft new Communicating Af- feníblies were ereéled evenrin thefame Cities with the Bithops, thefaid'Bithops diddevife this new trick Oftheir own heads,to fend to thatAffemblyCome Bread hallowed
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