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A
Preface to the
Reader,
men
that
he
fhould
be
beholding toGrotius,
Both exceedingly unbecome the Doilours gravi-
ty,
and
felfe
denyal. This
is
complained
of
by fome
who
have
rryed
it
in
reference
to
his
lace
comment on the
Revelation.
And
in this
ditfettation,
he
is
put
by his
own
thoughts,
(I
will
not
fay
guilty ) to
an
Apology cap.
i.
Sell. 24.
uá
in
re
fuffragi.
m
fuum
rich
(re
Hugonem Gra-
tium
rìv
z*oru
ex
annotat
ionibus poffhumis
nuper editis
poflquam
hvc
amnia
Typographo
tran-
fcriptaefent
, ccsrfim
per1n1isedotbumgratular. Lei
not the Reader
think
that
Du
tour
Ham:
had tranfmitted
his
papers full
of
rare
conjetlures
to
the Printer
,
before
Grotius Annotations
upon the
Revelations
were
publilhed, but only before
he had read them.
The
Doflcur
little
thinks
what
a fly
this
is
in his
pot
of
Ointment
,
not
how undecent with
all
impartial men,
fach Apologies
,
tubfervient
to
a
frame
of
fpirit
in
bondage to a man's
own Efteem
and Rev
putation,appear to
be
:but let
this pafs:and let
the
Saints
that
call
upon
the name
of
7,fus
Chrifi
in every place
be
the
Saints in every
part
of
Achaia
though the
Epiftle
it
felfe
(
written in-
deed upon
occafion
taken from
the Church
of
Corinth
,
yet
)
was
given
by
infpiration from
God,for the
ufe
not
only
of
all the Saints
in
the whole world,at that time
wherein
it was
writ-
ten
but
of
all
thofe who
were
to
believe in any part or place
of
the world to the end
thereof; although
the affertion
of
it be
not built
on any
tolerable
conjefure,
but may
be
re-
jeRed with the
fame
facility wherewith it
is
tendred; what now
will hence enfue?
Why
hence
it
followes
that
Clement
allo
wrote
his
Epiftle to
all the Churches to Achaia.Very good?
Paul
writing
an
Epiftle entituled
cheifly
to the Corinthians,exprefy
and
av
rt;le
directs it
to the
Saints
or
Churches
of Achaia,yea to all
that
call
upon the name
of
God
in
every
place, fo
that
his
Epiftle
being
ofCatholick
concernment
,
is
not to
be confined
to
the Church
of
Corinth
only
,
al-
though moll
of
the particular things mentioned
in
that
Epiftle related
only
ro
that
particu-
lar Church;
Therefore,
Clement direCting his
Epiftle
to the
Church
of
Corinth
only, not
once
mentioning nor infinuating
an
intention
of
extending
It
to
any
other
,
handling
in ir,
only the
peculiar concernment
of
that
Church,
&
a
difference
about
one
or
ttbo Derivai
therein,
muff be
fuppofed
to
have
written to
ail the
Churches
of
Achaia.
And
íf
fuck
Arguments
as
thefe, will
ñot
prove
Epifcapacy
to
be
ofApoftolical confutation,
what
will prevaile
with
men
fo
to
efteem
it?
Si
Pergama
4extra
defendi poffent,
eti
im ha'c defenfa
fuiffent.
And this
is
the
caufe
of
naming
many
Elders
or
Presbyters in one
Church
:
For
my part
I
fuppofe
the Doltour might
more
probably
have adhered
to
a
former conjeeture
of
his,Di
fert.
4,1 cap. t
o.
Sett:9.Concer.
ping
two
fundr),
different Churches,where were
ddtin
t
officers
in
the
fame
Citty:
primo(faith
he)refpendeo
non mfg
quaff
verum efl,quad
pro
concefo
fumitur,quamvis
min;
in
uva Eccle is
au:
-cats,
plures
(;msl
Epifcopi
nunquam
fuerint (pray
except
them
mentioned,All:zo
28:and thofe
Ali
:14.
z
3
)
nihil
tarnen ebflare
pin
in
cadres
civitate
duo
aliquanda taros diflerminati fuerint.
He might(
I
fay)
with more thew
of
probability
have abode by this
obfervation, then to have
rambled
over all
Greece
,
to
relieve himfelfe
againft his Adverfaries.
But
yet neither would
this
fuflïce.
What
ufe
may
or
will be
made
of
this
conceßïon thall
elfe
where
be ma-
nifefted.
But
the
Dolt
our
hath yet another Anfwerto
this multiplication
of
Elders,
and
the
mention
of
them
with
Deacons
with
the
eminent
identity
that
is
between them and
Bifbaps
through
the whole Epiffle
,
the
fate
perlons being unqueflionably intended
in
refpe9
of
the
fame
office,by
both
thefe
appellations.Now this
fecond Anfwer
is
founded upon the
fuppoli-
tion
of
the
former:
(a
goodly
foundation!)
namely,that the
Epiftle
nnder confederation
was
-
written
and
lent not to the Church
of
Corinth
only,
but
to
all
the Churches
of
Achaia
,
of
which
Corinth was
the
L?1letropolitan.
Now
this fecond anfwer
is
,
that
the
Elders
or
Presbyters
here mentioned
,
were properly
chore
whom he
calls
B+flso
ps,
Diocefans :men
of
a third
rankand order
above Deacons, and Presbyters
in
the Church- Adminifirations and goverment. And for thofe who are properly
called Pres-
byters,
there
were then none
in
the Church , to
give
colour
to
this
miferable evallon
,
Differ:
4.
chap.
toot
:
He
difcourfeth about the goverment
and
ordering
of
Church
affaires by
Ri-
¡hops
and
Deacons,
In
Come
Churches
that
were fmall,not
yet
formed or compleated,nor come
to
perfec
ion at the
firft
planting
of
them
:
how
well this
is
accomodated to the
Church
of
Corinth which
Clement calls,godem
eteo
,
a.'oxaíao:
&
which himfelfe would have to
be
aMe-
tropolitical
Church,being confefredly grear,numerous;furnifhed
with
great
and large
gifts,&
abilties
is
feen
with
halfe an eye.
How
ill
allo this
fhift
is
accommodated to hclpe
in
the
cafe
for
whole
fetvice it was firft
invented,is no
lets
evident.
It
was
to
fave
the
fword
of
Phil: r,
r.
From the
throat
of
the
Epifcopacy he
contendeth
for;
That
Epiftle
is
direéfed
to the Saints,
or
Church
at Philippi,
with the
Bifbaps
and
'D
WOW.
Two things do here trouble our
Da.
star.
r
The mention
of
more
BiAops
then
one
at
Philippi.
z
The
knitting together,
of Bifhops
and'Deacons
as
the only two orders
in
the Church, bringing
down
Epi
/copecy
one
degree