32 / 504
A Preface
to the Reader.
rent
fuffrage
of
the People.
Such a
Presbytery it
feemes Blandellus
does
not
defend.
But
yet
neither the
Dodours Outcry
as
at
a
Prodigy,
nor
this
retortion
upon Presbytery,is any
anfwer
to
the teflimony
of
Clemens
,
nor
indeed
is
there the
leaftpoffible refietlion upon
an
orderly
Gofpel
Presbytery in any Church , and
0
ver
it
,
by
what
Clemens
here profeffeth
CO
be
the
power
of
the
People , all
the
appearance
of
any fuch things
is
from
the
terme
S'olitu
foyfted
into
the
difcourfeof
Blondellua
by
the
Dotlour,_in
his
taking
of
it
up to
retort
at.
Clemens
in
the
very
next words
fecures
us.from any
thought,that
all
things depended
el
multitudiniafolitee
arbitrio.
His
verynext
words are
,
tcdvor
twf
srrov
xessi
ei'pnrsvilru
un
xceawluévrp evsaßa7é-
prur..
Our
Dot/ours and
t_Mafers
havingftuft
their imaginations with
the
rhape,and linea-
ment
of
that
Hierarchichalfabrick,
which
theCraft,
Pollicy, Subtilty,
A
varice,
Pode,
Ambi-
tion
of
many ages fucceflively
,
had formed
,
and framed according
to
the
Paterne
theyfade
in
the
Mount
ofthe
World
,
and
the
goverments
therm,
upon the fidt hearing
of
a
Church
,
a
flock
of
walking
in
orderly fubjettion,
to
their
own
Eiders concurring with
them,
and
contenting to them,in their
Rule
and
Goverment,inftantly
as risen
amazed,cry
out
a
Prodigy.
It
is
not
imaginable into
whatridiculous, contemptible mifcarriages,
pride,
prejudice, and
felfulnefs
do
often
-times betray men , otherwife
of
good
abilities
in
then,
wales,
and very
commendable
Induftry.
But Seilion
the
Gxth,
the Dotíour
comes
doter,and.gives
his
Reafonwhy
this
Teltimony
of
Clement
is
not
of
any.elficacy
to the
purpofe
in
hand,
faith
He
I
o.4: quo (
[odes
) a
ftdelibsu
¡Epifcopatu(
ut
vis)
contra
ipfos
ab
eApoftolis eonftitutosEpifcopes conrendentibuc
;
quit
ei
pe-
ulo
contra
prancipem
futim tumulttu
ciente
;
tit
u
verbisádretundendum
feditionem
ad
plebem
fa-
(lit,
argument's
ade/luthoritátem
populáadjudicandum prinéipiderogandum
disci
poffeexiflimavit?
Though
many words
follow
in
the
next Seaton,
yet
thisisahof
AnftVer
that
is
given
to
this
fi-
gnal Teftimony
of
Clement°.t.
I know the
Doftosr
for the
mot,
part
meets
not
only with
favo-
cable
Readers,
but alto partial
Admirers
;
or
elfe certainly
his..,Exclaiearion
would
karce
pats
for
an invincible
e/bgument,- nor
fuch Rhetoricaldiverfions
-as
this
be
efteemed folid An-
fwers.There
is
not
by Blondellua
any
Argument taken from the faithfuliatumultuatingagainft
the
TrPji
(
that
if
.rppobnted by she
ApoJlleswhitb
is
thrufi
in
taken
forthepeefonsofthofe
Bifhops,
isagainft the exprefsTeftimonyrof
Clemens
inthis
Epiftle
)
nor
from the peoples
feditionily
rebelling
again({
theirPrince
,
nor
from
anyword
fpoken
to
the
People
CO
reprelfe
theirfedition
;
neither
was
anyr
thing
.of.this
nature urged
in
the
leaft;byRlondellau
:
nor
is
there
any
colour
given
to
fueh a
colleetionfrom any
thing
in
the
words cited from
the
Epi-
flle or the context
of
them..
dt
is
the
advife
of
the
Chvrchof.Rome
enthet;er
Ions
(
whether
already in
office
,
or
afpiring
thereunto)
about whomthe,contention,and
divifion
was in
the
Church of
Corinth
,that
is
infified
on.
It
is
not
the
word's:
nod plea
of
them who
were
in
d¿for.
der,
thereisnot
any reprehenûon given
to
the body
of
the
Church
,
the multitude or
people
who are fuppoled
to
tumultnate; to
quiet tbem
butàdiredion
given
(
as was faid
).
by
the
Church
of
Rome
to the
perfons
that
occaflonedthe
difference
,
how
to
behave themfelves fo,
that
a
timely iffue
might
beput to the
divifion
Of
the Church. To this end are they
advifed
to
obferve
the
,sesgdyissilss,the
e
orders, precepts,decrees,orappointments
of
the
multitude,as
(
from
e/llls
the
fifteenth)
the.bedy,ofthe,Charch
is
called.
-
It
is
not,that
they fhould
yeild
to their
tumultuating, but
to
yeild
obedience
to their orderly
precepts,
Td
,Tessusvc±u
rz z
d
ea'
®r
tí9as,
are by
him
approved;
&
had
.it
not
been lawful for them;with the
Presbyters
xeist177itt
in
the
Affaires
of
the
Church,
Clthrevs
writing
this
Epiftle
to
the wholeChurch,could nocpofii-
bly have led them into
a
greater
loare:
It
is
a
fad
thing
to
confider
the
pittiful-entanglements,and
(hares
that
Tome
men
renne into,
who
will
undertake to
make
good
,
what they
have once.engaged
for,
let what
will
come
againft
rhern.
To
retureie
then;
It
is
evident,that
in
the
time
of
Clement>
there
were
but
two forts
of
Of-
ficers in
the
Church
,'Dither
,
and Deacons; whereas,theEpi/llesof
lgndtiuu
doprecirely
in
every place;where
:any Mentionis made
of
them
, as
there
is
upon
occafions
,and
upon none
at
all,
infli
pthree
Orders
difindt
in
rime, andahings With
Clement
it
is
not
fo. Thofe
whom heeailsRifhops
irsone
e.the
veìyfame
perlons he immediady
calls Presbyters (
af-
ter
the Esah
pfe
of
Patti:
Attte,no.
28. Mid Titus:
r.5.7.)
And plainly
afferes
Epifcopcy
to be
the
offrceof
Presbyters.
a
pcéprie
(
faith.-110i since
l
ts+r
istu
=,tu
and
duitsvxs,
5'
w
eoosv =.y
óv rz
r
,k-
ed
mixo
ñrs:*roRdrrüa
t;
ïwra°esoi
is
ap0od2
sstite4ssmc zpesRsív
-r
i :
viz:
Becaufe
theyw.ere in no
danger
tòtbe, caft from
their.
Epifeepacy.
And.whereas
the fault which
he reproves
in
the
Church o bfintb,istheirdivifion,and
want
of due
fubjedion
to.
their fpiritual
Governours,
accordingtó the'order
'
1
iWhÍèh
Chriü'hatn'peinted
in
all
the Churche4
ofthe Saints
,
he af-
firmes