% .. 1. eel4tiaraofthe.iikpòcalypfc..CAP.4. convetfant together with the Apoffler in the Church oferufalem, As i 5.4.6. Were they fuch as bellowedall their labour in teach- ing the peoplein the publick affemblies ? It is likelythat the rifpe- f les abiding there, laid alide this care ofteaching , and gave them- (elves to execute a certaine Lordfhip. A few yeares before, they fufferednot themfelvesto be pulled from prayers and teaching, Aels 6.4. but at lengthperadventure thisexceeding lovewas abated ; they followed.their eafe, and gaveover theduty and charge gladlyto the Elders. Away with this folly : the holy men werenot fleepy with flothfulneffe,neither did they affea ambitious dominion over others, which they forbade others by their example. z Pet.5.7. But to their power labouring in that which was the principali, theyufed thofe Elders as the eyesof thewings to take good heed to the holineffe of their flock. It iselfo evident from the ufe of the primitive Church, as wasPaid before in Chap. 2.2. But firft ofall Ambrofe'isa fùbflan- tiall witsof e in this matter, upon the z to Tim. chap. a.4. whence alfo the Synagogue, and afterward the Church hadElders, without Wooft counfell nothing wasdone in the Church, which by what negli- gence it isgroWneout ofu%e, IknoW net, unlcfre by theflothfulnefferor rather pride of the Teachers While . they alone,Will be thoughtfume- What. Such are his words : from which it doth rood clearly ap- peare, whatfort of Elders the Primitive Church had : fuch indeed, who with joynt fludies and counfels regarded the dignity of every one together with the Pattours. /Imbrofè complaineth that thefe were worse away (when thofe other preaching Elders failed not in his time, neithercould fade) and that by the negligenceor pride of the Teachers. And it is manifeff fromHies ome, that another kindc ofgoverning was by and by growne in ule in (lead ofthofè Elders. For he mentioneth to Ruflicur, of the Eccléfafticall Senate: The Church, faith he, bath a Senate, a company ofElders, Without whofe counfell theMonies may do nothing: Andagain, And We have our Senate of Presbyters, Gratian. C. t 6. q. z. The Church. But the Senate was become much unlike to the integrity and inflitutionof the firfl rime, as we learned even now fromAmbrofe : ,after whole time and age men labour in vaine to finde out this kindeofElders, which he complaineth to have perifhed and come tonothing before his times. Thofe wings therefore together with theeyes are thofe Deacons and Elders : Of which, what pic4uremore.fit could have beengiven ? In them is required fimplwity, in thefe diligence, Rom. I 2.8. That firfl is fignified by the eyes in theWings4 this fecund by
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