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A
Preface
to
the Reader.
anfwéred
throughly,and
removed
by
D.
H.
in his
fourthdilerrationwhere
he
propofes
them
w Confideration
may one day
thinke it needful
,
to
be
Able to ddìinfa:ifh
bccwcen
words
and things.
That
Clemens
ownes
in
a
Church but two
forts
of
()dicers
the
firft
whereofhe
calls fometimes
Bifhops
fometimes 'Presbyters
,
the
other
`Deacons
, chit
Doc',our
himfelfe
doth
not deny.
That
in
the Judgment
of
Clemens
no
more
were
infhttted
in
the Church
is
no
leis
evident.
And
this carries
the
convietion
of
it's
truth
fo
dearely
with
it
that
Lombard himfelfe confef-
feth
, has
folosminiflrorum
duos
ordines
Eccde
fiam
primitvam
ha6uiffe
,
de
("i'
false ',exception
Apofioli
nos
habere.
Lib.4.Sen.
D.24.Lib.3.ext. It
fermes moreos.er
that
thole Sithops and
Deacons in thofe dayes
(
as
was
obfetved
)
were appointed
to the
office
,
by
'and
with
the con-
rem of
the People,
or whole body
of
the Church:
no
lets
do thole words import,
w,v?voax morns
f
asiiai14as
W4o114.
Our
Dollour indeed renders
their
words
applaudente
out congratulante
Er.
elefa
total:
and addes
(/arid
pro
imperio
j
nihil
hic
de
acecptatione totiue
&clefæ
, fine
qult,Bpif
-
copos
&
Diaconos
a6
Apoftolis
CET'
Apof
olicie
viris
conftitutos
non effe,
ex
hoc loco
concludit
Eton
-
dellus,
qua/
qui ex Dei
puff
u
&
Apprsbatione
roof
uuebantnr
populi
drum acceptation indigere
putandieffent.
Differe:4.Cap.7.
8.
lo.
And
who dates
takethat
confidence
a
pon
him,
as
to
affirme any
more,what
fo
great
a
Dollar hash denyrd?
Though the
(cope
of
the
place ,
the
MUM
of
the thing
,
and
(ìrí1
molt common
fence
of the word
here ufcd
,
being; willingly
toContent (as
itisaltoufedin
the
Scripture for
the moftpart.A1-í:8.t.
i
Cory.r2)toathing
to
be done
,
or to the doing
of
it
,
yet here it mutt
betaken to
applaud
,
or
congratulate ,
or
what
elfe
our
poetourpleafes,
becaufe
he
will have
it
fo.
'aoóyuarxvJ
/eealto,
muff be Fire
wen
of
the Church
,
where
uth
a
conflitution
of
Officers
is
had
when
that
are
intended
becaufe
it
is
our
Dot-tours
purpofe to
have
the words
fo
rendred.
Ex
;info
Dei
ct
Approbation , as
though
any particular command
or
opprobation
of
God
were
intimated,for
the
conftitution
of
the
Bifhops
and Deaconsmentioned
,
beyond
theinfhtution of
the Lord
Jefus
Chrifl,
that
Elders
fhould
be
ordained
in
every
Church
, becaufe this
would
feeme
to
be eaclufive
wholly
of
the
content
of
the
people ,
as
any way needful
or
required
CO
their
confitution:
which yet
as
it
is
praftically falfe,no fuch
thing
being mentioned
by Clemens,who
recoutneth
the
way and
means
whereby Officers
were
continued
in
the Church
even
after the deceafe
of
the Apostles
,
and thofe
firfi
ordained
by them
to that
holy employment
,fo
alto
is
it
ar-
gumentativelyweake andUnconcluding.
God
appointed,defigned Saul to
be
King,approving
of
his fo
being
,
and yet he would
have
the
people come
together to
chore him.
Soalto was
it
in
the
cafe
of David.
Though
the
Apofiles
in
the
name
&
the authority
of God,appointed
the
Deacons
ofthe Church at
Hiernfalem
,
yet
they would
have
t'r,ewhole Church
lookout
among thomfelves the men
to
be
appointed.
And
that
the ordaining
di
he Elders
was
with
the
peoples Eleetion
All.
14.
23.
It
will
ere
long
be
manifefted,
that neither
our
Dollour
nor a-
ny
of
his Affociates
have
as
yet difproved.
This
poore
thing
the
people,being
the
peculiar
people
of
Chrift, the
heritage
of
God
and
Holy Temple
unto
him &c.
Will
one
day
be
found to be
an other manner
of
thing, then
many
of
our great
Dolours
have fnppofed. But he informes
us
Cap. 4.
Sat
3.
From
that
Teftimony which
we cited
before,
that the
Apoftles in
the
Ap-
pointment
of
Bithops and Deacons
( for
to
the
words
exprelly are
)
are
laid
tiJ
a*svuart
wiTc.
i
:.
a
:.
Saith
he
Revelationibue
edoflos
of
fie
,
quibus
demum
hæc
dignitas
communicanda
effet
;
that
is,that they appointed thofe,whom God
revealed
to
them
in
extraordinary
manner
to
be
fo
ordained, and
this
is
the meaning
of
Tr;
ervQvuun
fvg.vv
ov7ae, and why
fo
?The holy
Ghoft
orders concerning the appointment
of
Deacons
data;£r.rev
Wede40,
i
Tim
3.
to. That
thofe
who
are
to
be
taken into
office
and power
in
the Church had
need firfi
to
be
rryed,
and appro-
ved;
is
granted.
And
this worke
she
Apoftles give
to
the multitude
of
the Church.
All:
6.
Where yet after the
peoples
Eleltion
,
and
the Apoftles
Approbation, and
the
trial
ofboth,one
that
was
chofen
is
fuppofed,
to
have proved
none
of
the
beft.
And
yet of him,and them,are
the
Apoftles laid
by Clemens
that they
did
,
,rJ
aviouaTi
d`eevveetom.
But how
Thal
I
it
bemade
to
appeare
that,
Spiritism
probantes,
trying or proving
by the Spirit
,
or
fpiritually proving
them
to
try whether,they
Were
able c5htini
filers
of
the
newTef
ament,
not
of
the
Letter, but
of
the
Spirit,proving
them
by
that
fpirit,which
was promifed
unto
them
to
lead theminto
all rruth,mufl
needs fignifie
they were
taught
whom they fhould appoint by
immediate Revelation.
To
prove by
the
Spirit
orSpiritually the
perlons
that
are
to
be
made Minigers,
or
Bifhops,is
to
have
their
names revealed
to
us. Stephen
is
faid
to
fpeak,
AEI.
6.
to.
And
Paulpurpofed
¿a
,J'
ow
rt.Ali
:tç.at.
And
we
are
laid
to
ferve
God,rs r$ aveu!a47i.Gal.5.
And