(113) ;flitch ferfans to them , gavve them the power of' Juriflitlion which they hadnot before.] And [ As another of my Rank cannot have that Jurifdiîiion within my Church as I have, but ifhe will have any thing todo there, he muff be inferiour in degree to me ; fó we read in the Revelation, of the Angel of the ,Church f Ephefus, &c. ] So that with him a Bithop is but one ofthe Presbyters, of e fame Rank, having the firft charge ofthe Church, ( as every Incum t in refped to his Curates) and fo above his Curates in Degree. ] And [ As the Presbyters may do nothing without the Eilhop, fo he may do no- thing in matters of greateft moment without their prefence and advice. Cone.. Carthag. 4. c. 23. ----- It it therefore molt fálfe that Bellarmine faith, that Presbyters have no power of JurifdiEiion For it is molt clear and evident, that in all Provincial Synods Presbyters didfit, give voices, and fubfcribe as well as Bops : - And .tbe Bishops that wereprefent (in General Councils ) bring- ing the refolution and content of the provincial Synods of thole Churches from whence they came, in which Synods Presbyters bad their voices, they had a kind of confent to the decrees of General Councils alfo and nothing waspaired in themwith- out theirconcurrence. And Chap.. 49. [ The . Pap f s chink that this is the peculiar right ofBishops : And c. 3o. But they are clearly refuted by the univerfal praelice of the whole Church, from heJhemeth the beginning : For in all Provincial and National 'Synods, Presbyters did ever ¡silences give voice and.fubfcribe in the very fame fort that Bishops did ; whether they were éneifìoii. afembled to make Canons ofDifcipline, to hear Caufes, or to define doubtful points ;AZ ;77; of dolirine : And that they did not anciently fit and give decifive voices in General Tarrac. Councils, the reafon was, not becaufe they have no interef infuch deliberations, and í;r3.Com. refölutions, but becaufefeeing all cannot meet in Councils that have interejt in filch cil.Toler buftneft, butfome muff be deputedfor and authorized by the re, it was thought fit r. g Gregor. !. that the BJhops ] So here are Bishops authorized by Presbyters as their 4. ep8g Deputies in thegreateft affairs in General Councils. Synod, He.proceedeth to prove this byinflances, Coned. Later. fah Innoc. -3. mac. fiber. &c. VI. Even Archbilhop Whitgift maintaineth (as Doctor Stillingfleet hath T Kend collecaed, Iren. pag. 394.) that [ No kjnd of Government io expcefed in the o word, or can neceffarily be concluded thence : ------Noform ofChurch Government Bridges, is by the Scriptures commanded to the Churchof God ( or prefcribed. ) ] And cofins, Do6Ior Stillingfieet there citeth * manyteftimonies, to provethis the judgment crak r: of the Church of England : And if fo, it mutt be only men and not God, thorp, whomake any difference between a Presbyter and a Bishop in the point ofJa- Hales, rifdihion. Cling.' worthhil, &c moth VII. Bifho p Per p et. Govern. p. e, 39 r. faith , De S y nod o fChemni- Antioch which depofed Paulus Samofat. as Eufebites fheweth lib.7. c. 3 8. in tius and Conch Eliber. about the time of thefrtt Nicene Council fate bifhops and . Presby-many Ln- ters, even 36. In the fecond Coned. Arelat. About the fame time fubfcribedander calvi- twelve .Presbyters'befides Deacons. Se'in Coned. Rom. fub Hilario & Gregor. nip, P where
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