II chafe Officers by whom the world isfo muchfcandalized, becaufe it is notpoJrble that Germanyfhould endure them. ] The Spaniards and Dutch-men willingly heard this, but not-the refl. Hdl.p. 334. lib. 4. XIII. The opinion of Paulus,himfelf, the author of that Hiftory, is fo fully andexcellently laid down, of the Original of the Bi[haps grandeur,'and of the manner of introducing the Ecclefiaflical Courts by the occafion of Pacifi- cations, Arbitrations, and Conftantiner Edi6 , as that I intreat the Reader to turn to and perufep. 33o, 331,332, 333. XIV. Filefacus (aLearned Papifl) copioufly proveth from Councils that Presbyters were called the Retïors of the Churches, pag.56o. Andniore than fo, that they were called Hierarchici and Prelates, and hadplace in Councils, efpecially Provincial, p. 576, 577, 578. Fag. 574. he citeth Conci!..4quifgr. Paying, Prerhyteri qui prifunt Ecclefiis, de omnibus hominibus qui adeorumEc-. cleframpertinent, per omniacoram grant. Fag. 576. he proveth they were cal- led Prelates abundantly. Pag.577. Epifcoporum inftar foam habebant plebenz regendam. XV. Mr. H: Thorndike is fo large in defending the Presbyters Governing power, and that as grounded on the power of Congregating, in his Form of Primit. Gov. and Right of Church, emc. that it would be tedious to recite his words. Fag. p8. he faith, [The power 'of the Keys belongeth to the Presbyters and is convertible with the power of celebrating the Euchar, and that's the Reafon why it belongeth to them ( Nothing couldbefpoken plainer to our ufe.) And p. 128. The power of the Keys, that is, The wholepower of the Church, whereofthat power itthe root andfource, it common to Bishopsand Presbyters.] And Right ofCh. p. r26, 129, 13o, 131. he faith much more to confirm thisby teflimonies and infiances ofantiquity. XVI. The great Jo. Gerfon is cited to your hand by the fame Filefacus as [hewing that Curateswere Hierarchical, .Quia cadent opera Hierarchica ele incum- bunt qme &Epfcopie : And more out of Gerfon, de Coned. Evangel. & deflat, Ecclefiaftie. tit. deftatu Curatorumconfid. r. &4, &c.] XVII. I will end all in the fullefl teflimony for thefe times, His Majeflies Declaration concerning Ecclefiaftical Affairs, before the pallingof which it was examined by his Majetly and the Lord Chancellor, before Dukes, Lords, Bishops, Do6torsoftheir party, and manyof usalfo that are now filenced, and after all twogreat Bifhops with BithopReynolds and Mr. Calamy appointed by the King to joyn with twoLords to fee thatit were worded according to the *But MO Kings expreffedfence. And it faith p. r r,&c. [ Besaufe the Diocefis, efpecially theland. force of them are thought tobe of too large extent, we will appointfuck a number of Suffragan Bifbopr in every Diocefe as shall be fufficient for the due performance ofpointedto- their work*. 3. No Bifhop(hall Ordain or exercifi any part ofjurifelillion which thin day. P 2 appertaineth
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