Chap. VIII. 7e HISTORY of the PLRITANS. 67i I. The foie right of ordination. K. Charles I. II. The foie right of fpiritual jurifdiêtion. 1640`: L The foie right ofordination his lordfhip proves from the words of Of the right St. Paul, 2 Tim. i. 6. Stir up the gift of God which is in theeby the lay- ÿ ba prtton Hall,. ing on ofMY HANDS ; and that this power was never communicated to-Bp. ,. prefbyters, from the words of St Jerom, by whom ordination is excepted from the office of a piefbyter : quidfacit epifcapus, quadnonfaeit prefby- ter,- excepta ordinatione. And yet (lays his lordfhip) our englifh bifhops do not appropriate this power to themfelves ; " Say, brethren, I befeech " you after all this noife, what bithops ever undertook to ordain a- rr prefbyter alone,- or without the concurrent impofition of many hands " r This is perpetually and unfailably doneby us." The Smeelymnuan divines contend on the other hand, that bithops and'Smettymnu. prefbyterswere originally the fame ; that ordination to the office of a bi- usfor ardina- tion by prof fhóp.does not differ from the ordination of a' preftYyter;. that there arenohyrerr. powers conveyed to a bifhtop which prefbyters are fecluded from ; nor any - qualification required in one more than in the other ; that admitting Ti- mothy was a proper bifhop, which they deny, yet that he was ordained by the laying on of the hands of the prefbytery as well as of St Paul's, . 2 Tim. iv. 04.. That the original of the order of bifhops, was from the prefbyters choofing one from among themfe-fives to be a Elated prefident in their affemblies, in the fecond or third century that St. Jerom declares once and again, that in the days of the apoftles, bithops and prefbyters were the fame; that as low as his tirfie they had gained nothing but ordination ; and that St. Ehryfoftóm and Theo- phylaEI affirm, that while the apoftles lived, and for fome ages after, the names of bithops and prefbyters were not difiinguifhed. This (fay they)s is the voice of the moil primitive antiquity*. But the Smec ymnuans are amazed at his lorda ip's afertion, that the bithops' of the church of Eng- land never ordained without prefbyters; and that this was fo confiant a pra &ice, that no inflancecan be produced of its being done without them.. Strange! (fay.' they) when Tome of us have been eye- witneffes of ma-- tF ny.. * In the debate ofthe houfe on thishead, theauthority of that very ancient parchmentt copy of the bible in St. James's library, fent by Cyrillus patriarch of Alexandria, to king being all written in great capital greed letters, was vouched and afferted by Sire Simon D'Ewes a -great antiquiary, wherein the pofifcript to the'epiftles to Timothy and .T:'.- his are only this, " The firft to Timothy, written from Laodicea; tb Titus written from, Nicopolis, " whence he inferred, that the ailing of Timothy and Titus firft bithops of Ephi.- fus and Crete, were-the fpurious additions of fome eafiern' bifhopt or monk, at heath fivers hundred years after.Chrift. Rufkw. Vol. IV. p. 284,.
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