f 54 Obfervat.vid.reporteth) of Archbifhops and Bifhops Survey, 6tc.. p. ash, into new and worfe Latin Names of Superintendents and General Superin- tendents. As the more moderate Cal- vinifls, and their great Leader, Calvin himfelf, allow'd of this Superiority of Bifhops , and thought it very ufeful. In the Chapter, which was wrote upon the State of the Church, and the Man- ner- of Governing before the Papacy, he expreffes himfelf after this manner. " It will be very advantageous, in con- s` fBering the Manner of Governing cc the Church, and the feveral Orders " of Minifters, to obferve the Form of Calvin. Inffitut. Lib. 4. Cap. 4. De flatu veteris Ecelege, & ratione gubernandi qus in tofu fuit ante Papatum. Utile erit in its rebus [de ordine gubernandx ecclelìx ót mini- íleriis] veteris ecclefrx formam recognofcere, qua nobis divini inftitutionis imaginem quandam oculis repraefenta- bit. Tatnetfr enim multos Canones ediderunt illorum tern - porum Epifcopi quibus plus viderentur exprimere quam facris libris expreffum efet: ea tarnen cauzione totani fu- am ceconomiam compofuerunt ad unlearn illam verbi Dei normam, ut facile videas nihil fere hac parre habuiffe a verbo Dei alienum Quibus ergo docendi munus in- junaum erat, eos omnes nominabant Presbyteros. llli ex fuo numero in fingulis civitatibus unum eligebant, cui 1pecialiter dahaat titulum Epifcopi, ne ex squalitate, ut fieri íoler, di Fidia nafcerentur, trod autem fingulx provin- c. e unum habebant inter Epifcopos Archiepifcopum : quad item in Nicena Synodo confituti funtPatriarchx, qui eilent ordine & dignitate Archiepifcopis fuperiores, id ad difcipli> ns confervationem pertinebat Gubernationem fie con- ífitutam nonnulli Hierarchiam vocirunt nomine (ut mihi videtur, improprio: certe' Scripturis inufitato-- , Veritm fi rem omiflb vocabolo intuemur, reperiemus veteres Epi% copos non aliam regendx Eccletix formam voluiffe fingere ab ea guani Deus verbo fuo prarfcripfir. c the
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