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A
Preface
to the
Reader.
and to
make
fupplication
cr
-;
srríouart. Eph. 6.
r
8.
With manylnoré
expreffrons
ofthe
like
nature. Does all this relate
to
immediate
Revelation, and
are allthings done therby which
we
are laid
to
doe
in
the
Spirit?
Before
we
were
inaruded
in
this myftery
,
and were
informed
that,
db.apdaarrtr5t'ariumov,
did.fignify
to
be
taught
by revelation.
We had
thought that
the
expreflìonof doing
any
thing
rrscrvaSua7t
had mamfefted
the
Affrflance
,
guidance, and
dire-
&ion, which for
the doing
of
it
we receive
,
by
the holy and
b
effed fpirit
of
God ,
promifed
unto
us,and bellowed
on,in
&
through the
Lord
Jefus
Chrift.Yea
but
he
addes,that
it
is
allo
fpoken
of
the Apofflec.
veÿ/rruery
pracognitionem
(i
:
e:
)
Revelationem
4tnncins.asaier,
they
appointed them Bithops and Deacons
,
by
the
helpes
and prefence
of
the
fpirit with
them;
the
Apoftles examined,tryed thole who were to
be
appointed
Biftiops,
fo
obtaining, and re-
cieving
a
perfea
foreknow!
edge,
or
knowledge
of
them
before
their
Admiflìon into
office.
This
alto
expreffes Revelation
(
.-.),Pasta
itnnpires
) upontryal
it
was revealed
unto
them ) and fo
mutt
any
thing
elfe
be
allowed to
be
,
that our Dodtour
will have
to
be fo
now
he
is
affec-
ting
to that
purpofe.But had
the
'ENbrls./ árdkss,who
appointing
Bihhops
and
Deacons
after the
Apoftles
time
,
had they
alto this
fpecial
Revelation
?
Or
may they
not
be
laid',
d'ouu.vieet
ru
arit¡UtZTI,
If
not,
how
will
you
look
upon them.
under the
notion
of
iTdoy,...v.w
7wr,who neg-
leaed
fo great
a
duty
:
if
they
did,let
us
know when this way
ofconftituting
Church
officers
by
immediate Revelation
ceafed
i
and what
was
afterwards took up
id
the
Roomethereof: and
who
they were
that
fiat
proceeded
-on
another account, and on
what,Authority
they did it
?
There
are
a
generation
of
men in
the world,will
thank
the Doltourfor this
intimation
,
and
will
tye
knots upon
it,that
will
trouble
him
toloofe.
Beforewe
retorne,
let
us
look but
a
little
timber
;
and we (hall have
a
littlemore
light
given
us
,
into what
was
theconditonand-power
of
the
people
imthe
Church
in
the
dales
of
Clement, fpeaking
of
them who occa(ìoned
the
divifion
,
and
fchifma
in.
the Church
of
Co-
rinth
,
or
them
about
whole exaltation into
office
,
or dejediou
from
it
that
fad
difference
fell
out,
hegives
than
this
advice.
Tic
ú.
i.o
fu
y
yivrasa;
ns iva e3,xr
-;7,s,
nsrrn
çróuir
a'y«-
mns'
itaosro:.
it
di'
iuè
cddte
tÿ
%ets
,ÿ
ayieµzza
ix.
uqd
ïivrtju
.x
éar
p5l'sCoi vote
rei eregszccaóu
+ra
+soô
Bt
a
credo,
,uoÿor rti
aolp.nry a
xarx
itpnrsuérm :taro'vV'rggine(4W10
ISVEOUTipaY.
It
fermes
the a4;963,
the
multitude
or
thepeóple
were
not
fuch
poore iitconfderable things
as
they are
reported
to
be,
whenhe
advifes
them
to flop
and
flay
thefeditíon,
by
yeelding
obedience
to
the
things
by
them
appointed
and
commanded.
If
it
were
in
it
felfe
evil!,
dilorderly,andnot
according to the mind
of
Chrift, that the
people
fhould
order
and
appoint
things in the
Church, it
had been
limply
evil!
for
Clemens,:to
have advifed any
to
yeeld
obedience
unto things
by
them
fo
appointed.
Where
is
nowIgnatius
his
%.IITöorErf
ro
inrextay
tr
y
p;c:
&c.
Even thofe who are contending
about
Rule
and goverment in
the Church
,
are advifed
to
ftand.to the determination
of
the
people
,
and
to
cry
,
vri`
veesae
us,a
This isalfo
inrfied
on
by
Bien-
dellue,who
thence
argues
poteflatem plebis
CircaSacra. Differ.
5
Cap.8.
Seet.q..
eild
vet-
ba
hat (
faith
our Dafior)
prodigii
inflar
eft quad notandum
duxit
Day:-Blondellue
[
poteflatem
PlebiüCirca
Sacra]
(de
quit tandem
integrant
differtatianem
elucubravit:)
artifrciie
gaibulcun9;
afferturas, Hic
(inquit
)
usi
mecer Clemens
fideler etiam
de
Epifeopara
ant
Presbyterie conten-
dentei,
non
ab Epifcopi
fingulari
ÿ
izpiy r,.s
mitts, fed
à
multitsdisr'srpraceptis
pependiffe.
But let
not our
Dolour
be angry
,
nor cry-out
fo
fart
of
Prodigies
z
a:fittfetime
will manifeft
,
that
many things may
not
be prodigiour,which
yet arecontrary
to
fundry
of
his
conceptions, and
Apprehenlons.
I
cannot but
acknowledge him
to
be
provoked;
but,
with
all
mutt
fay,
that I
have
found very
commonly,that
reafons
ufhered
in by Luth
l
oud(lamours,have
in
examinati-
on
proved
to
have
flood
in need
of
fomefach
noylesas
mightfright
men from the
confide
-
ration
of
-them.
What
is
in
the noxtSedlions fetrtrpxtdtheildcttçCdiildren
of
Epi
/copacy
front
being afrighted with
this prodigy may
perhaps
be
of
more
efficacy
thereunto
,
then
the ex-
clamations beforementioned
:
He
therefore proteedes.
SeE7;.S:
Cea(4::faith
he)
Teri. rem
ageret
Da
Blondelltu
de
Presbyteria
/
lest
(non
de
£pìfeopie
noflru.)sti. tiiìplaste
t
triumphaturra
Brit,nec
enimab univerfoaliquo `PresbyterorutvCalirgie;
quad ille.cam
afflillim ardet,fed
d
multi-
tudinis foliue
eflrbitrio,
turn
iontendentes.de Pp:fcope;,tuns fidelesaWmaìfbainthios,pependi,(fe
sgné
cencludendumerie.
if
any man
in the world bath .manifefte!4wtwetdefpe;ateAffeetionto-
wards Bresbyterie,
then
this
Dottour
bath done:toward
Epifcopi
..for
my part
Alm
habits.
But though
neither
Clemens,nor Blordelluè (peak any
one
wordàbontthe
orderingof, things,
multirudinis folios
arbitrio
,
yet-
here
is
that
laid-by
them
boíhs;.asis
fur
iiciendydeftrudtive,
not
only to
the
Epifcopacy
the D,oitourcontends for,
as
a
shit giw
lyinconlllentwith
the
power
,
and liberty
here granted tht,people,but
of
any
fuch
Er
pliti
tiinA
plfo,as,flballundertabe
the ordering;
and
difpofìngofthings
in
the
Church
of
God
,wtt%wtthe
cool-eat
a
d
Conrär-
reni