( 73) hallowed by themfelves ; And this was fir(# to comfort ( as they faid ) the Presbyters and new Congregation, left they thould think themfelves cut off from their Bithops Church and Communion. 2. Tohold their intereftin the :people by this handle of their own making. Of there Eulogie the Can. Concil. Laodic.14. (peaks, as Petavius and others think : Petay. in Epiphan.ad beref. 69. pag. 276. faith, [ Rome,' ubi per titular difiributi presbytersfuss quique populos regebant : Ad eos Epifcopi Dominicis diebus fermentum five benedilium panem iu Communions fymbolum minore confueverant. ] And the paffage whichhe citeth out of Innocent ad Decentium cap. g. is very full, [ De fermento vero quod die Tlominico per Titulos mittimtts, fuperf tie nos confulere volui(ti : cum omnes Ecclefie noffre intra civitatemfint eonfiitute : 9uarum Presbyteri quia die f o propter plebem fibi commiiffam nobifcum convenire non poffunt, ideofermentum a nobis confeetum per acolythos accipiunt, ut fe a noffra communion,. maxima illa die nonjudicentfepara- tos. ] That Melchiades ordained this, Damafua his pontifical book faith which was about An. 313. But Baroniur ad An. 313. largely openeth all the bufinefs, and fheweth that thisfermentumwas hallowed levered bread, which was not the Eucharift, but a devifed facrament ( as.Innocent calleth it) of Union andCommunion : confirming this which I have faid : And ex Can. 14. Concil. Laod. &t. he (heweth that it was ufed alfo in the Eaft : And to this notablepaffage ofInnocent [ Omnes ecclefie afire infra civitatem funteonffitute] all the Popes Churches were within the city, hefaith, (p.97.) [Detitulis tantum intelligit, adpasfermentum mietifaleret, non quidem quad nonoftent in fub- urbils alie complures ecclefieatquefanitorum memorie, fed nulla prorfus Titularir, in quam popular cblligi confueverit. Cujus rei caufa ait fe non mitterefermentum ad Presbytery: per diverja etrmeteria conftitutos, quod ill# plebem fibi fubditam quam colligerent, non baberent.] Here you fee, z. That there were more Temples than Congregations, or Parifhes, being eredled as Monuments in honour of the Martyrs. 2. That there were no Congregations or Parithes, but within the City. 3. That this device of holybread came upon the divifion ofPárilhes ; and therefore as . one was new then, fo the other could notbe old. . XVIII. Another evidence is the fiateof CathedralChurches, whichas nia- And iris ny Epifcopal Antiquaries fay, were firft the foie Churches of the Bithops a confide- Charge or Diocefe ; and that Parifh Churches were fince built one after ano--'able proof ther, as Chappels be in Parithes, by thofe that could not come fo far : And tnhich Dr Tillefleÿ that the 'prefent Government of the Cathedral by the Dean and Chapters, againft under the Bifhop, is the evident reliét of the old Epifcopal Government, and Seldè6 truly tellethus what it was : To pafs by many others, I will now recite but faith (p. the words ofHolingfhead our Hiftorian, a Clergy-man,. Chiron. Vol. t '79 C Tae p z 35 right o} á Col. z. ["Thofe Churches are called Cathedral, becaufethe Bithops dwell Burial place did firfl belong to the Cathedral church] and herein the enflame of our Ringdem and others was not different. And if the Diocefe was taco as that all were to be buryed at the Cathedral, it mu not fo big as.many of our farifher inLondon, which arefain to take other ground for buryal ; and their Church will not hold the tenthpart of the living as auditors. K near
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