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A
Preface
to the
Readert
fee
whether
the
man drives
,
and what
heaimes
at
after he bath
fet
out
his Bi/hop like
an Eni-
perour,
or
an efiern-
Icing,
in
all
pompa and
glory.
He addes
,
rati ..makómes
áp%v7us
u`ed:ro
,ÿ
pa-
o,nas,yt,3s,
rottr`E7E
f<
cvswsßz:?=
at.
v®
rpET=.
ThepayingoftributetothemasKings
is
the
Nine
of
thefe
de,criptions, that
they may
have
wherewithal
to
maintaine their pompe
and grearnefs
,
according
to the
inflitution of oar
Lord
tefue Chrifi and
hie ble
feed
a4psflles. But
I
(hall
not
rake
fartherinto
this dunghil
nor fhall
i adde any
more inftances
of
this kind
out
of
Ignatius,
but
dole
into one
infifted
on by
ourpodour,
for the
proof
Of
his
Epifcopacy:
Difert.a.Cap.25.
7. Saith
he,9uartè.
TgiS1.old,
zE
j
=,Iva
S
á
es);
w
¿ú
v.
'dá
v
e}B
y'
4
';v
rrassowsvwv
rut
csmaki,rara
,,raeoCv7eyts
xj
Jlakóvots. Eptfcopo
attendite ut
&
vobis
Deus
at-
tendat
ego
animammeam libenter
carom
loco
fubflitui
caperem
(
quod
finglicè
optimè dicimue ,
(
my foul
for theirs
)
qui
Epifcopo,
Pre(byterie,&Diaconis abfequuntur.
1
hope
I
may
without
great
difficulty
obtaine the Doelours pardon
,
that
I
dare
not
be fo
bold withmy/OR/ex
ro
leopard
it
in
that
manster,efpecially
being
not
mine owne
to
difpofe
of.
Upon
theft
and many more
the
like accounts do
the Epiftles
feeme
to
me
,
to
be like
the
Children
that
the ?ewes
had
by
their firange Wives.
2Teh: r 3,
who
fpake
part
the
language
of
eAíldod,
and
part
the
language
of
the
?ewes.
That there are
in
them many
footfieps
of
a
gra-
cious Spirit
,
every way
worthy of, and
becoming the great and
holy
perfonage, whofe
they
are efteemed,
fo
there
is
evidently a mixture
of
the working
of
that
worldly and
carnal Spirit,
which
in his
dayes
was
not
fo
let
look
as in
after times. For what
is
there
in
the Scripture,
what
is
in
the
genuine
EpiffleofCiemetis,
that
gives
countenance
to thofe
defcriptions
of
Epifcopacy
,
Bthops,
and
the
fubjeetion to them,that are
in
thofe
Epiftles
(
as
now
we
have
them )
So
infifted on
?What titles,
aregiven
to
Bithops?
What
Sovereignty, Power,
Rule,Do-
minion
is
afcribed
to
them
?
Is
there
any
thing
of
the
like
Nature
in
the writings
of
the
A-
pofiles? In
Clemens,
the
Epi/ileof
Polycarpus &c.
Or
any
unqueftionable legitimate
off-
fpring
of
any
of
the
fir
t
Worthies
ofChriftianity
?
Whence
have
they
their three
orders
of
Bi-
fhops Presbyters
,
and Deacons
,
upon the
diftind
obfervation
of
which
fo
much weight
is
laid
?
Is there
any one
word, iota,
title,
or (jllable
,
in
the
whole book
of
God
giving
counte.
nance
to
any
filch
diftin
&ions
?
Eph.
4. 8.
We
have
Pullers
and Teachers.
Rom:
r
z.
7
8.
Him
that
teacheth, him
that
exhorteth,
him
that ruloth, and
him
thatßeweth
mercy,
Philip.
r.
r.
We
have Bithops and
Deacons
:
and
their Inftitutionswith theorder
of
it we have
at
large ex-
preffed.
r
Tim:3.I.2.
Bitlsopsand Deacons
without thelnterpolition
of
any
other
order what-
ever.
Deacons
we have
appointed
aAtls
the
7. And Elders.
eA6344.23.
Thofe who
are
Bi-
lhops
we
find called Presbyter:.
Titus:
t.
5.7.
And thole
who are Presbyters,
we find
termed Bi-
lhops.
trills
20.
28.
So
that
Deacons we
know
and
Bifhops
who are
Presbyters
,
or
Presbyters
who are
Bthhops
we
know;
but
Bitbops,
Presbyters, and
`Deacons
,
as
three diftinél orders
in
the Church
,
from
the
Scripture we
know not. Neither
did
Clemens
in
his
Epifite to the
Co-
rinthians, know
of
any
more then
we
do
,
which
a
few inftances will
manifeft
:
faith
hefpeak-
ing
ofthe
Apoftles.
Kx>á
X*'6_,0
âv
rÿ
r
kegs
rnpv'aaoviae
og4s
c7av 7La ásacspyeéf
tiuN
db
clai
-Ent
Ts
'va'unit
cis
lmavó'rusù,
dtosÓVys^rof
uOuívoue
amtoro'
47oúroé
Kew&e&xy5
J'
msa
%evrev
tihy&e
m
;i:navimeov
rjdlaoivry
&C.
Bifhopsand
Deacons
(as in
the
Church at Philippi)this man knowes:
but the third
order
he
is
utterly unacquainted withal.
And
that
the Difference
of
this man's
exprellions concerning
Church Rulers
from thofe
in
the Epifile under
confederation
,
may
the better
appear; and
his
afferting
of
Rithepa,
and
Presbyters
to
be one and
the fame,may
the
moreclearly
be
evidenced,) [halt tranfcribe
one other
Paffage
from him,whofe
length
I
hope
will be excufed from
the
ufefulnets
of
it
,
to
the Purpofe
in hand. Pug. 57.
58.
Kai
it
'a
ósß
Tct
oms
o
ÿyvmacv
dtrá
r:ú
e
esc
ripsov
'fnacv
Xe.rî
,
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hu
die
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It'
tr,ru.,
i>J:oyiuev
o'eho,v
T
vEvAxn,drrs
¿oexaoios
vrdvas
( for
fo
it
feemes was
the manner
of
the
Church
in his
dayes,that their
officers were
appointed
by
the coulent
of
the whole
Church)
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¿
4.r'n,.r
R,J
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aetseuq,
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ñmi
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stuuapweguivst
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au
ve5
kj
v
c5
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au
tá
Jt
e,54
4
roxoor r
ooCdrrouo.
IDIct,tj,esor
ár
acrAtuo-
pa1t1N7ES
Z,
Eo
Jaffe:
( or the B:fops
of
whom he
was
fpeaking)
¿,aiooS
É)Aropmoy
Ki
70,4R4
'901
112.
«vd.iurto.
&c. And
fundry
other
difcoveries are
there,
in
that Epifile
of
the
like
nature
:
It
is
not
my
defigne,nor purpofe to
infli
upon the parity ofEithops and Presbyters,or
ratherthe
I-
dentity
of
office
denoted,
by fundry
Appellations from there and
the
like
places:
this work
is
done to the full by
lllondetlus,
that
our labour
in
this kind,
(
were
that the
purpofe in
hand, )
is
prevented. He
that thinkesthe
Arguments
of
that
Learned man
to
this purpofe
are
indeed
C
3
anfwered