C224 in his Arabicl¿,Originalls thereof faith as followeth [according to Seldens Taatt'&Non in his Commentary pag. 29+ 3o. [Conftituit item Marcos Evangelilla duodecem Presbyteros cum Hanania , qui nempe manerent cum Patriarcha, ade'o ut cumvacaret Pratriarchatus eligerent unum è duodecim Presbyteris cujas capiti reliqui undecimmantes imponerent, eumque benedicerent , ô Patriarcham eum crearent : a dein virum aliquem nifi quem eligerent, eumrjue Presbyterum, fecum conffituerint loco jut qui fiefaetus e(t Patriarcha, utiràfemper extarent duodecim. Negiee defiit Alexandria inffitutumhoede Pres- byteris, ut fcilicet Patriarchas crearentur Presbyteris duodecim , ufque ad tempora Alexandri Par riarche Alexandrini , qui fuit ex numero illo 3 t 8. Is antem vetuit ne deincepr Patriarcham Presbyteri crearent, r decrevit ut mortuo Patriarchâ convenirent Epofcopi qui Patriarcham ordinarent. Decreait item ut vacante Patriarchatù, Eligerent five ex quacunque regione, five ex duodecimXis Presbyterir,fivealiir, utrerferebat, virumaliquem eximium,eumque Patriarcham crearent ; atqueità evanuitinJlitutum illudantiquius, quo creari Vitusa Fret- byteris Patriarcha, & fueceffit in locum ejus decretum dePatriarchâ ab Epifeoptt creando. Here you fee in the molt full exprellions that the Presbyters Eleîtion, impofition of hands and Benedilïion created their Bithop or Patriark; and alIb chofe and made or ordainedanother Presbyter in his roome, and fo or- dained both Presbyters andBi/hops. 3. The Tradition or Hiflory of Scotlandtelieth us that their Church- es were longgoverned by Presbyters without Bifhops, and therefore had no ordination but by Presbyters. Hei`tor Boêthius Hiflor. Scot. li. 7. fol. 128. 6 [AntePalladiumpopulifuf- fragüs ex Monacbis&Culdeis Pontifices afumerentur. ]' John Major degeffis Scotorum li. 2. cap. 2. Saith [prioribur illis tem- poribus per facerdotes &monachosfine Epifcopis Scoti in fideeruditifuns. Jahan. Fordonus makes this thecurlomeof the Primitive Church: Scetichr. li. 3. cap. S. AntePalladii adventum habebant Scoti fidei Dollorer ac Sacra- mentorum Miniftratores Presbyteras folummado vel Monachos, ritum fequentes Ecclefte primitive. Which Bifhop tither reciting (deprimordiirEcclef..Britp.798.79pSoo.) Saith ,tuodpofiremumab üs acceprffevidetur qui dixement (ut :Johan. Semeca in glof(a decreti Dift. 93. cap. Legimu:) quod inprimaprimitiva Ecclefia com- mune erat officium Epifcoporum & facerdotnm, & nomina Brant communia & officium commune fed in fecunda primitiva ceperunt diftingui & nomina &ofjiria.. So Baleas Script. Brit . Cent. í 4. cap. 6. Allwhich affure us that then only Presbyters could ordain where there were no other, the fame we may fay of the Gothick Churches according to Philofforgius Eclog. Ii. 2. c. 5. That were for feventy years after their conversion without aBithop. Vlphilas being the Iirff. 4. Columbanus was no Bithop but a Presbyter and Monk , nor his SuccLiï'ours that yet Ruled even the Bops, as Beda notetle, Hi/f. li: 3. e, 4.&. 5. Hobere filet ipJa Infula Tte/torem limper Abbatem Prerbyterum, coolies
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