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A
Preface to the
Reader.
ney and travel for
the propagation
of
the Gofpel,he
fcemes
in all
places
to
have been
follow-
ed
almoftat the
heeles
,
by
the profetfing
`Pharifees,
who impofed the
neceffity
ache
ob-
fervation
of
Mofaical
ceremonies
upon
his
new Converts
:
for inflantly
upon
his
returne
to Antioch, whereduring
his
abfence
,
probably they had much
prevailed
,
be
falls
into
ä:fpure
wan
them
,
chap
:
a
g.
v.
a: and
that
he
was
not
concerned in this controverfy, only
upon the Account
of
the Church
of
Antioch , himfelfe informes us
,
Gal:
2.
4
:
affirming
that
the
faIle
Brethren,which caufed thofe difputes
&
diffentions,crept
in
to
fpy
out his
liberty,
in
his
preaching theGofpel
among
theGentiles,2.v:that
is
in
the
places
before mentioned
through-
out
a
great part
of
A
faa.
For the appealing
of
this difference, and
the eftablithing
of
the foules
of the
difciples
which weregrievioully
perplesed,with the
impofition
of
theMofaical
yoake,
It
is
determined
that
the
cafe
thould
be refolved by
the
Apoftles,e..41l:
1
g.
z
:
partly
becaufe
of
their Authority
in
all
the Churches,
wherein thofe who contended with
Tau/
would be
corn-
pelled
to
acquiefce,&partly becaufethofeJadenzing
Teacherr
,pretended the commitiìon
of
the
ApoRles
for
the
Dodrine
they preached,
as
is
evidentfrom the difclaimure made by
them,
of
any
rush com
million or
command,
v:
24, Upon
Paul's
returne from the
Affembly
at Jere
-
falem, wherein
the
great controverfy
about
Jevoifh
Ceremonies
was
Rated
,
and determined,af-
ter
he had
in
the fief'
place delivered
the decree
,
and Apollolical falutation
by Spiflle
to the
Church at
Antioch, he
goes
with them alto to the Churches in Syria and
Cilicia
,
espreffed
in the letter
by name,as
alto
to thofe
in
Pamphilia,Piidia,Derbe,Lyfira,lcanium
cl-
c.chap:s 6.
v:
r,
2,
3
4
:
and
all
the Churches whichhe had gathred and planted
in his
travells
through
Ifta,whereunto
hewas
commanded
by
the
Holy
Cyhofl,A11
3.I.z.Things
being
thus
hated,
it neceffarily followes,
that
the
ApoRles
had inftituted
Diocefan
and
Metropolitan Bithops.
For though
the Churches were
fo fmail ,
and thin
,
and
few in number
,
that 7
yeares
after
this may we believe
our
Dolour,
the
ApoRles had
not
inftituted
or
appointed anyElders
or
Presbyters in them.viz:when
Paul
wrote
his
Epiftle
to the
Philippians,which
was
when
he
was.
Prifoner in
Rome,
as
appeares,
cap:
r, 7,
13, 14:chap:4,22:
about the third
yeare
of
25(ero,yet
that
he had fully built and fetled the Hierarchical fabrickcontended for
,
who once
dares
queftion
'
4udacia
Creditar
â
mulria
fiducia.
But
if
this
will
not do
,
yet
Ignatiuo hits
the
nayfe
on
the
head
;
and
is
ready
at hand to
make
good,
whatfoever
the
Dollour will have him fay, and
his
Teftimonie takes
up
the
fenfe
of
the
z
nextfollowing Sellions,
whereof the firft
is
as
followes.
Hine dilli Ignatiani ratio
conftat
in Epiflolâ
ad
Romanos
obi
ille
Antiochia
Epifcopue
fe
4
â
Sreít
¿s
Ano at
eau
Irm, paflorem Ecclefta
qua
eft
in
Syria
appellee
, cúm ad Antiochiam,fci
:
nt
cad
Metropolis foam tota Syria
pertineret. Sic
&
Author
Epiole
ad
Antiochenos,
óux.r,aaít
9ci
1rapoaé5:f
À
fuoiu
ri
Û'aeneAsis,
Eam
inferibens
totam,Syriam
ejru
maeynuar
ere
concludit.
But
yet I fearethe Dollourwill
find he
bath
need
of
other weapons,
and
other
manner
of
Alfiftance
to
make
good the
carafe
he
hath undertaken. Thewords
of
Ignatiau in
that
Epiftle
to
the
Romans
are,µeseweivaaa
cr
añ
5%iúteov
lw
Meta
?xuunaíar
ins
árß
sµsi Vol/API X,n
"aua
li
nelF,
Betaufe
he
recommends
to
them
that
particular Church
in
Syria, which
by
his
imprifonment
was deprived
of
it's
Pallor
,
therefore wihoueldoubt
he
was a
Metropolitical Arch
-
Benoit;
Tytere
to
pattelat
c:
But
the
Dollour
is
refolved
to
carry his
carafe,
and therefore
being forfaken
of
all fair
and honeft
meanes,
from whence he
might hope for
affi
lance
or
fuccelfe, he tryes
(as
Saul
the
Witch of
ender)
the counterfeit
,
fpurious
Title, of
a
coun-
terfeit Epiftleto the
Antiochians,
to
fee
if
that
will
fpeak any
comfortable words for
his
relief
or no.And to
make lure
worke,he
caufes
this gentleman
fo
to
fpeak,as
if
he
intended.to
make
us believe
that
Syria
was
in
Antioch,not
Antioch in
Syria,as in tome remote parts
of
the world,
they
fay
they
enquire whether
London
be in England
,
or
England
in
London.
What
other
feule can be made
of
the words
as
by
the
Dolleur tranfcribed
?issr
nui
s
venco
s
&on
Sueea
ai
ce'Aratcye+t.
To
the
Church of
God
dwelling
in Syria
which
is
in
&Antioch
:
now
if
this
be
fo,f
Rtall confers
it
is
potlible
we may be in more
errours then
one,
and
that
we much
want
the
Learned 'D
oil
our's afïiftance
for our information
;
the words
themfelves
as
they
are ufed
by
the
worfhipful writer
of
that
Epiftle will
fcarce
furnith
us
with this learned and rare
notion,
they
are
at
length,
'ayedasl
i
rÿ
eoo¢6p«y-
( for
fo
he
firft opens
his
mouth with
a
lye)
vrxAn-
elt
ñr.is1síen
iauò
.
sÿ
,
;010,6y140V
áE
)(en;
z
a
frawíon
he
4ueit,
s,
u
r
an
Xessc
hn
muds
7,a(sú64
'Araaowt.
What
is
here more espreffed
,
then that the latter
paffage,
ire
eílntioch,is
reftriiive
of
what
went
&
before
wasfpoken
of
it's
refedence in
Syria
,
with
reference
to
the
name
of
Chriflieaa, firft given
to
the
Difciples in
that place,
I
know
not:
and therefore it
is
mot
ceri
Caine