'236 Mr. N E A L 's IId Vol. of the * Jerome fays, that James, furnamed the Juif, the Brother of our Lord, immediately after our Savi- our's Pafhon, was ordained Bifhop of Jerufalem by the Apoftles. And t David Blondel allows, That all the Antients affert him to have been ordained Bifhop of Jerufalem by the Apoflles. [way, 'tis obferved from a Letter of Dr. Peter du Moulin, Prebendary of the Church of Canterbury, &c. That a Paffage for Epifcopacy, written by Mr. David Blondell in his Apologia pro Hieronymi Sen- '' tentia, was left out at the Entreaty of the Presby- ' terians. The Words were to this purpofe ; " By " all that we have faid, to affect the Rights of the " Presbytery, we do not intend to invalidate the " Antient and Apoflolical Conffitution ofEpifcopal " Preeminence: But we believe, that wherefoever it is eflabliíhed `conformably to the Antient Ca- " eons, it mutt be carefully preferved ; and where- " foever, by fome Heat of Contention, or other- " wife, it hathbeen put down or violated, it ought " to be reverently refl:ored. "] Catalogues of the Rifho,ps of Rome have been colleEted by ** Iren rus; and of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Laodicea, and Coefar a in Palefline, even from the Apoftles Time, by ff Eufebius. Hieronymus de Scriptoribus Ecclefiaftïcis : Jacobus qui . appellatur frater Domini, cognomentoAltus, port pafiionem Domini, ftatim ab Apoftolis Hierofolymorum Epifcopus ordi, natus eft. 1-, Blondelli Apologia pro fentcntidHieronymi, p.50. 7acobum Domini fratrem, Hierofolymá: Ecclefix Epifcopum a Collegit or- dinatum, conftanter afi'erunt veteres omnes. Bifhop Kennet's Regifter and Chronicle Ecclefiaftical and Civil, p.742.. Durell's Conformity of the Church of England, 4to. 1662. Append. ** Irenai Lib. z: adverfus Hxrefes, cap. 3. p. zoo. exc. Edit. Grabii Oxon, 1702. ( Eufèbii Ecclef. Hift. Lib. 3. cap. 2. 34. Lib. 4. cap. 1. 4.. eo. Lib, s. cap. 6. Lib. 6. cap. 21. Lib. 7. cap. 2. 32. Lib. 3, cap. 13. z i,, 22. Lib. 4. cap. 24. Lit). 7. cap. 32. Ne.4lr,
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