(rio) it by the Prieft : All which are falfe. And a Presbyter may preach and Baptize in any Infidel Kingdom, where no Bishop bath any Diocefe, and this as an ordinary cafe (in Turley, Tartary, China, Japan, ) And what Bithop fhall there tell him whom to Baptize wherethere is no Bifhop ? And the power of Baptizing is the MILand greateft Keyof theChurch, even the Keyofad- million. And they that do among us deny a Presbyter the power of judging whom to Baptize and give the Lords Supper to, do not give it to the Bifhop (who knoweth not of the perlons) But the Directive part they commit toa Convo- cation of Bithops and Presbyters ; and the Judicial partly to the Priett, and partly to a Lay-Chancellor. X. Epiphanies Heref. 75. faith, [ The Apoftles didnot fet all infull order at once: And at fiat there was need of Presbyters and Deacons ; by whom both Ecclefiaftical affairs maybeadminiftred : Therefore where no man was found worthyof Epifcopacy, in that place no Bithop was fet ] By which it appeareth that he thought that for fome time forne Churches were Governed without Bithops : And iffo,it there belonged to thePresbyters office togovern. Whereto we may add the opinion of many Epifcopal men, who think that during the Apoftles times, they were the only Bi(hops in moil Churches them- felves. . And if fo, Then in their long and frequent abfence the Presbyters mutt be thegovernours. XI. That many Councils havehad Presbyters, yea manyof them is part doubt : Look but in the Councils fubfcriptions and you will fee it. A Synod offome Bithops and more Presbyters and Deacons gathered at Rome, decreed the Excommunication ofNovatianur and hisadherents, Eufeb. lib. 6. c.43. Noeius was convented, judged, expelled by Me Seftonof Presbyters, Epi- phan. Heref. 47. c. I. See a great number ofinílances of Councils held by Bifhops with their Pres- byters inBlondel, deEpifc. fens. 3.p. 202. Yea one was held at Rome prefiden- tibus cum Joanne 12 Presbyterit, An. 964. vid. Blond. p. 203, 2°6,207. Yea they had places and votes in General Councils: Not only art aliorum procuratores, as Vic ?or and Vincentiies in Nie. t. but as the Parlors of their Churches, and in their proper right. 1 need not urge Selden's ArabickCata- logue in Eutych. Alex. where there were two perlons for divers particular -places : or Zonaras who faith, There werePriefts, Deacons and Monks ; nor Athanafius a Deacon'sprefence: Evenof late the Council of Baffd is a fufficient proof. XII. The forefaid Canons of Carthage which are fo full, are inferteslinto the bodyof the Canon.Law, and in the Canons.ofEgbert Archbifhop of-York, as.B.hop 71¡her and others have obferved. XIII. Hierom's
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