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A Preface to the Reader.
of
honour
,
extent
of
f
urifditlion Ecclefiaftical
fubjetlion to, or
exemption from one
another,
the
confiderablenefs
oftheir
cities in
the
civil
fiate
oftheRomane Empire where they did refide,
was ffill
the
moll
prevalent and
cogent argument
in
their brawles
:
the mofi notable brufh,
that
in
all
Antiquity
we find given
to
the great Leviathan
of
Rome ,
who fported
himfelfe in
thofe
gatherings
together of
the
waters
of
people,
d
multitades,and
nationsand tongues,or
the ge-
neral counfells
(
as
they
are called
)
was
from
an
Argument
,
taken
from the
feate
of
the Em-
pire,being
fixt
at
Confiantinople,
making it become
new Rome,fo
that the
Bífhop
of
the Church
there
was
to
enjoy
equal priviledge
,
with
him
whore
lot
was
fallen
in
the
old Emperial
Ci-
ty
;
but
our
`Dotlour
addes
Sea:
5.
lilted
ex 7udeorum exemplars
tranfcripfi
ffe Apofioli
videntur
:
cum
Mofaicâ id
lege
cautum
errs
,set
f
sedices
&
minifiri in qualibet civitate ordinarentur,
Deut:
16.
18: ilia ve-
ro
in rebus dubiis ad
f
udicem(tMofie
fuccefforemfynedrio
)
Hierofolymitano cintlum recurrere
tenerentur,
Cap:
17
9: and in
SeElion
6:
he
proves Hierafalem
to
have been the Metropolis
of
that
whole nation. Egregiam
vero laudeml
But
I
The
DoElour
I
prefume knowes before this ,
that
thofe with whom he bath
to do
will
never give him
the thing
in
quefiion uponbis begging
,
or
requeft.
That
which alone falls
in
under our confideration and enquiry
is ,
whether the
Apoftles
infituted
any fuch
model
of
Church-Order and Goverment
as
is
by the
Dalour
contended for; to this he tells you,
that
the
Apoftles
Teem
to
have done
it
, from
the patterne
of Molokai
inflitutionsin
the
Churche
of
the
ieWes;
But,Dotlour, the Quenon
is
not,with
what
refpeEl
theydid
it,but whether
they
did
it
at
all
it
no;
this the
Doflour thought
good
to
letalone untilanother time,
if
we
would
not grant
him
upon
his
petition
, that
fo
they
did.
z
This then
is
the
Dolours
fecond
argument for
his Diocefan,and
Metropolitan Prelates.
His
firft was
,
from
the
example
of
the
Heathens, in
their
civil
Admininration
and
Rule, this
fecond from
the
example
of
the
fewes.Not
to
divert into
the
handling
of
the Churchand Po-
litical
¡late
of the
?ewes
,
as
appointed
of
God,
nor
that
diffonancy
that
is
between
the
Infi-
tution
of
civil Magiflrates
,
andEvangelical
admsniflrations
; this
is
the
fumme
of
the
Do-
Sours
reafoning in
his
5,6,7,and8
Sellions.God in the
Cburch,and
among the
people
of
the ?ewes,
chafe
out
one
City,ro
place his name there,maleing
it
theplace
where
a
{l
theTypesr
ceremonies which
he
had
appointed
for
the difcovery
, and
"Wowing forth
of the
Lord
f
efus
Chrifl
,
were
vi
¡bay
and
glorioufly
to
be
managed
,
ailed
, and
held
forth (
fundry of
them being
fach,
as
whole
Typicalnefs
Would
have
been
deflroyed
by
their multiplication
)
and principally
on this account
,
making
that
place
or
City
(
which
was firft Shilo
)
the
feat
of
the kingdome
,
or
habitation ofthe cheif
Ruler
for
the
adminifiration
of
?office,
who
appointed
fudges in
all
the
land,
for
the
good
and
peace
of
the
peopie:therefore
the Churches
of
Jens
Chrift,difperfed over the
face
of
the
whol
world,
freed from Obligations
to
Ciries,or Mountuines,walkingbefore
God,
in, and with
a
pure
and
fpiritual
woríhip,
having no
one
Reafon
of
that
former
infitution
in
common with
the
Church
of
the
fewer,
muff
be
can into the
fame
mould and
figure
:
I
hope
without
offence
I
may take
leave
to
deny the Confequeoce ,
andwhat more I
have
to
fay
to this Argument
I
fhall yet deferre.
But
the
Daílour proceeds
to
prove, that
indeed the Apofiles did difpofe
of
the Churches
in thisframe
and
order,
according
to the
patterne
of
the
civil
goverment
of
the
Romane
Em-
pire, and
that
inflituted
of
God
among the
fewes.
The ninth
Sefiton,wherin he attempts
the
proofof
this Affection,
is
as
followeth:
card
hone
Imaginem,
Apoflolos
Eccle/ias
ubig3 difpanendas
carafe
,
tr
in
omnibus
plantationi-
bus
fui.t,
minorum ab eminentioribue
civitatibuu
dependentiam, Cr fubordinationem conflituiffe
exemplis quidem
plurimis monflrari
port
,
illsed
in
Syria,
d
Ciliciapatet ,
Aft
:
16.4
.cum
enien
Chrnµa
illud, cap
15.
2.
Hierofolrmas
referretur
ab Ecclefta'Idiot Antiochia
,
Cap.
14.
z6,&15.3.&
decretuns
ab
Apoffolio
denses
ad
cos
mitteretur,v:22.inEpiflold, quâ
decretum
Wad
continebatur
fimul
cum Antiochen
/Abut soli s
1
ooe
ss
xj
tousles zdirp
s
comprehenfos
videmue,v: 23.
Dein Epiflolâ
ill
ei
eAntiochenà Ecclefia reddita v:
3o.
Paulus
tandem
&
Sylas Syriam
cr
Cili-
clam
peragrantes,v:4.cap.I6.4.diyuam
x010eR01.24
Nose
4;
"Aao0-0t00,
fngulis
civitatibus
obfervan-
da eradiderunt,
ut
qua
ad
hone
Antiochia
t.24'etropolin,ut totidem
fubordinata
Ecclefia pertinerent;
ut
et
ipfa Antiochia
ad
Hierefolymas, primariam tam
lata
(ut
ex
Philone
pradiximua)
provincia
t-
etrepelin pertinebat ,
d'
ad
earn
ad
dirimendam ¡item iffam
f
conferebat.
This being all
that the
Doilour bath to producefrom the Scripture to
his purpofe in
hand,
I
have
tranfctibed it at large; for this being removed,
all
that
follows,will fall
of
it's own
ac-
cord.
I
Then
the
dependance on
,
andfubordination
of
leffer Citties,
to
the greater,is
affected
au