Ç A P ;?: :,/fRodeatioilc#l,e,ApoCal.y,pfe. 43 . whit as deer. There was never any time when there was more faith- Langui- fitll diligence, and earneft endeavour in teaching. That motftrous fbi b wickedneffe was not as, yet hatched, that anyAmid b.e a 'Pafour, Who Ephefus. didnotfeedat all, or that anyJhouldfit in theDoEtorfrs chair,Whoflould. edumb and lazy, beingdiflr-attedWith other 6sffnefes. No man Was then a T-.,ifbop that had the office of teaching, Who did not teach moll dili- gently. T hat even at Rome, where the myfferyof iniquity was to bud forth more fpeedily,therewas no cellation as yet from thisduty. The Palour ofthe Church, every Lords-day at leaf/, did plainly and cleerly expound fuch things as Were readout of the aoki of the Apoflles or Prophets; he did alfa admoniJh and exhort them to imitate chafe things Which they had heard and read, beingfo holy and good things. Juffin. Apology z. The fame thing Clement, Oricren,Tertullian,and Cyprian, do witneffe. But the matter is as deerand manifeft, as it is deer that the contrary is done at this day. And that thou cant'. not indureevilmon. Thus was the care ofteach- ing. The manner of their Difcipline was no leffe. found and entire. Which is firft ofallgenerallyfet down, of what fort it was, againft all evilmen; and then in -f eciall,ofwhat fort it was againff the Clergie it felf that I may_fo call it, in the next words ; And thou haft trycd thefe thatfay theyare Apoflles, &c. The generali Difcipline didnot in the leaft maner tollerate men that lived any way wickedly, and that with theoffence ofoahers;but according to.the nature oftheir crime,it re- proved them either privately, or before many, ifprivate admonition had nothing profited; and then afterwards it did alto keep them back from the holy things, ifthey would not hearken to them,that perfwa- ded them to thatwhichwas good and right.And as touching E'phefus, it cannot be doubted, but that this holy courfè was kept conflantly there, feeing 'Paul taught there threeveers; who alfo commanded Ti- mothy fo precifely and diligently every thing that belonged to this matter. The obfervation allo hereof was famous in the Primitive church, as even 'Pliny the Heathen witneilèth,in an Epiftleof his un- toTrajane the Emperour; The Christians (faith he) are Wont to rid e early, and to zsagnifi'e Christ as if he Were their God, andfor the prefer- ving of their Religion, toforbidmanf'auçhters, adulteries,covetoienejír, deceit,and rhi;gslike to there, Euîeb.rn Book 3. 33 ch. ofhis Eeclefiall. HilÈ. out of Tertullian. Out of doubt they did not only forbid thefe fins in Word 6y teachino,but they allo reprcfred them by holydi¡éipline, And they did well and wifely judge, that etherwifekligion could not be prefervcd, unleflè vices were cut and put down with this fpf- H z rituali
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