iì ory ofthe Puritans, examiîc'd. 235 s Chriftian Church, and deduce their uninterrupted " Line, through all the following Ages, to this pre- " fént Day." There is nothing either bold or unguarded in -any one of thefe Exprefiìons, they are all very capa- ble of being defended. To pafs over the Epiftles of St. Ignatius, who lived in the time of the A- .poftles, and whole Epifiles have been proved (to Demohft ration) genuine, by the learned Bifhop Pearfon, againft Blondel and Salmafius ; where the three diftina Orders of Bifhops, Priefts, and Dea- cons are fully proved in every Epiftl.e : * Tertullian calls upon the Hereticks of his Time to make good their Succeífion of Bifhops, from, Tome Apoftle, or Bithop Cotemporary with the Apoftles ; in like manner, as the Church of Smyrna proved St. Polycarp to be appointed Bithop of that Church, by St. yohn ; and the Church of Rome, St.Clement to be ordained by St. Peter ; and feveral other Churches which derived their Succeffion direa- ly from the Apofiles. -}- Epiphanius gives an Ac- count of the Bifhops of7erufalem to his own Time, and reckons them down fromSt. Tames, toHilarion, then Bifhop, in Number 45 Eufebius has given us a Lift of them from fames, to Hermon, in Number about 39. Saint Jerome * Tertullian de præfcript. Hazretic. cap. 32. Edit. Rigaltü 2664. p. 213. Edant Origines Ecclèfarum fuarum, evolvant ordinem Epifcoporum fuorum, ita per Succeffiones ab initio de- currentem, ut primus ille Epifcopus aliquem ex Apoflolis, vel Ápoftolicis viris,qui tarnen cum Apoftolis perfeveraverit, habuit Au6orent &Anrecefforem. Hoc enim modo, Ecclefia; Apoftolicre cenfus füos deferunt, ficut Smyrniorum Ecclefra Polycarpum, ab Joanne conlocatum refert; ficut Romanorum, Clementem a Petro ordinarum itidem Perinde utique & cxteræ exhibent, quos ab Apoftolis in Epifcopatum conítitutos, Apoftolici feminis Traduces habeant. Confingant tale aliquid Hæretici. fi Epiphan. Lib, s. Torn. 2. Hazref. 6G. Se6. 20. Vol. t. p.636. Edit. Colon. 1682. f Eufebii Ecclef. Hilt. Lib. 4. cap. 4. Lib. f. cap. 12. Lib. 6. cap. so. Lib. 7. cap. 3z.
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