O STC RrpT .Promijucus additions to the Chapter, 4. ofpart fccond .ont of .',Mr. Gilbert Burnets bocIe called, The Vindication ofthe Church of Scotland, &v. Ag. 304. 305. Let mehere fend you to the Matters of jewifl) Learning ; particularly to the eminently learned `Dr. Lig/tfoot, who will inform you that in every Synagogue ` therewas one peculiarly charged with the worfhip, called the Biflwp ofthe_Gongregation, theAngelofthe Church, or the Mini- ` fier oftheSynagogue. Andbefides him there were three who o had"thë Civiljudicature, who judgedaltoabout the receiving ofprofelites, the impofition ofhands, &c. And there were o- ther three who gathered and diftributed theaimes.'" Now the Chritian Religion taking place as the:Cofpel was planted in `'Cities where it was chiefly Preached, thefe formes and orders ` were 'reteined, bothnames and things. ` `Pag. 306.--- ThefePresbyters wereas theBifhops Children, ` educatedandformed byhim, being in all they did, direéted by ` him and accountable to him, and were as Probationers for the `Bithoprick, one ofthembeing alwaies chofen tofucceed in the ` feat, when vacant by the Bifhops death. Nowall thefe lived- "" togetheras in a little Colledge,thus the Churches were planted. ` and the Gofpeldiffeminated through the world. But at &rfi `every Bifhop had butone Parifh, yet afterwards when the `numbers ofthe Chriftians increafed,: that they could not con vmuiently meet in one place, and when through the violence of perfecution they durit not aflembleingreat multitudes, the *Thefery'`Bitl.ops divided their charges in leffer Parifhes * and gave af- o Erani- fi nments to the Presbyters of particular flocks, which was us (in:d- < ing into Ti- ` one firfi inRome, in the beginingofthe 2d. Century --And r;taps fu i'` things continued thus in a Parochial Government, till toward proper the end ofthe2d. Century, the Bifhop being chiefly intrufied is by the confuted `with thecure ofSouls , a share whereofwas all() committed to 1¿nomï g Jt ` the Presbyters,who were fubjeec to him,and particularly tobe Itiorianr. ' ordained by him, nor could any ordination be - without the ` Bifhop ; who in ordaining was tocarry along with him the concurrence ofthe Presbyters, as in everyother ad ofEcclefi- `afiical'jurifdifion. ' Pag.
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