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( 114) where 34 Presbyters'fubfcribed after 22 Bifhopr. And in thefirft tubSymmach. where after 72 BiJhopsfubfcribed67 Presbyters : So in the third, fifth, andfxtlá, under the fame Symmachus, Felix had a council of 43 BiJhops and74-Presbyters. The Cond. Antifiod. c 7. faith, Letall the Presbyters beingcalled come to the Synod * 1 tthu in theCity. * ] big the Di. Coneil. Tolet.4. c.3. faith,Let the Bifloops ofembledgo to the Church together and acejemru, fit according to the time oftheir Ordination: After all the Bifhops are eared and fit, let the Presbyters be called, and the Bopsfitting in acompafs let the Presbyters fit behind them, and the Deaconsfrondbefore them. Evenin the General Council at Lateran fub Innoc.3. were 482Bops, andSco Abbots and Priors conventual, faith Platina.] Thus Bilfn and more. VIII. To the fame purpofe writeth the GreatefI Defender of Prelacy BlthopDownam, Def. lib. r. e. 2. felt. I I. pag. 43, 44. and the placesbefore cited out of him, profefling that the Bithop hath but a chief and not fie perifdiilion. IX. Bithop VJhers judgment is fully opened in his Model which we offered to the King and Whops in vain, and which he owned.tomewithhis own mouth. X. Becaufe the citingofmens words is tedious, Iadd, that Allthole whom I cited Chrifi. Concord: p. 57, &c. to [hew that they judge the Presbyters Ordination may be lawful, and valid, domuch more thereby infer that they are not voidof aGoverning power over their own flocks. viz. e. Dr. Field lib. 3. c.32. a. Bithop Downam'Def. lib. 3. e. 4. p. ioS. 3. Bithop Jewel Def. of Apol. Part 2. p. s3 r. 4. Saravia De divers: Min. Grad. cap. pro, s r. 5. Bithop Alley Poor mans Libr. Prelell. 3. & 6. p. 95, 96. 6. Bithop ltington. 7. Bithop Bridges. S. Bithop Bilfon, Of SubjeE7. p. 540, 541, 542, .233, 2"34, &c. 9. Alex. Newel. so. Grotius de imper. s i. Mr. Chifenball. 12. Lord Digby (then a Protettant. ) 13. Bifhop Davenant Determ. 42. p. 191, 192. 14. Bithop Prideaux, cant. de Difeiplin. Ecclef. p.-249. i g. Bithop Andrews. 16. Chillingworth. To which I add 17. Bithop Bramball in his Anfwer to Mileterius's Epinle to the King. IS. Dr. Steward's Anfwer to Fountains Letter. 19. Dr. Fern. 20. Mafon at large. 2i. Bithop Morton Apolog. Xi. Spalatenfis is large to prove the power of the Keys to belong in common toPresbyters as Euch. I cited the words before, Lib. 5. c. 9. n. 2. & c. 2. n. 48, &c. XII. Even Gropperus thePapiOE pleadeth. in the Council of Trent for the re- liitoring of Synods of Presbyters inftead ofOfficials, (the thingfo much deterred inEngland, as that all we undergo mutt rather be endured ) yet faithGroppe- 'rus f Xellore the Synodal: which are not fìsbjeil to fo great corruption, removing theft

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