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A
Preface
to the Reader.
taro
;
that
the
Apooles
inllituted c*tetropolitan
Arch-
Bffhaps
ów,e
6áH
dHÿn.
But
to
make all
fore
the
learned
`Doî1our
will
not fo give
over
:
But Sell
:1
r,
he adds
that
the
Epigraphe of
the
Epiflle
to
the Romans
grants
him the
whole
ca
/e,that
is;
EwxaeTíg
ñrs
ivy'°
ax)
ër -rózai'
2e
eie
Proptairor,
ex
quia
(faith
he
)
Eccle
f
e
Romans, ejufq,
epifcopo
Paper
ecclef
is
Omni-;
bus
in
urbicariâ
regione,aut provincia Romans contends,
prsfeëluram
competiifevidemtu.
Although
I
havefpent forne time in
the
confiderarion
of
mens
confeaures
ofthofe
fubar=
bicarian
Charches,that(as
is
pretended
)
are here pointed
to,
and
the
rife
of
the
Rifbop of
Roms
jurifdi(lian
over thofe Churches,
in
a
correfpondency
to the
civil
goverment
of
the
Prefecsl
of
the City, yet
fo
great
a
Critick
in
the Greek tongue
as
Cafaaban.
Exerc
:
15.
ad
eon: tso:
having
profetTed
that
expreflìon:
tr
ziz*çi
,e:a'Pu
puílap ,
to
be barbarosss and unintelligible
,
I
thall not
contend
about
it.
For the
prefidencymentioned
of
the Church
in,or at
Rome,
that
it
was
a prefidency
of
f
urifditïion
and not only
an
eminency
of
faithand
holinefe
that
is
inten-
ded
,
the
Doaour
thinks
it not incumbent on
him
to
prove:
thofe
with whom he hat
to do,
are
of
another mind
:
although
by
this time force
Alteration might
be
attempted
yea
there
was,as
elfe
where fhall befhewed:
and
fo
much
for
Ignatius
his Archi.Epifcopacy.
The
example
of
Alexandria
is
urged
in
the next
place
in
their
words
:
idem
de
Alexandriâ,
de
spa'
Eufebists
,t-
Narcum'aoi;iiaiaswejönr
z'señsAre
ex
rí
etwni'oo,Si,EccleRas(inplurali
primate
is
Alexandriâ inflituife.
Has
owner ab
eo
fob
xominé
st
çe'Awsçrotifeíá
asesraias,adminie
pandas
fufcepi
f
fe
Annianum , Neronis
anno
otlavo
idem
Eafebieu
affermat:quibus
pate: prim,ari-
am Alexandria
of
Tatriarchalem
cathedram
fixam
effe,
ad qua); reliqua
provincia illius
ecclefi.t.
á
Marco plantate,utadmetropoliticam foam
per
inebant;
doubtlefs.
for
t
There
is
not
any
paffage
in
any
ancient
t4'uthor,
more
clearly difcovering the uncertainty
of
many things
in"
Antiquity, then
this pointed
to
by
the
Doeour
in Eufebéus.
Forfirft,
the fending
of
Mark
the evangeli,/1
into Egypt
,
and
his
preaching.
there at Alexandria what
he had
written
in
the
Gofpel,
is
but
a report.t31'ten
laid
fo,
but what ground they had for their
faying fo,he relates nor.
And
yet
we
know
what a
foundation
of
many Affertions
by
following
Writers,this Rumor
or
report
is
made
to
be.
z
In the
very next
words
the Authour
affirmes
and
infifts
long
upon
it in
the
next
Chapter that
Philo's
book.,
ati
sñ
pia
Tÿl'nTxn,.l, was
written
concerning
the
Chriftians converted
by
Marks
preaching
at e,flexandria,when
it
notoriouuly known
that
it
treateth
of
the
EQ'ens
, a
Seét
among the
Jewes
,
amongft whole
obfervances many
things
were
vaine ,
fuperftitions,and foolifh
;
unworthy to
be once applauded
as
the
pra
&ife
of
any
Chriftian in thofe dayes:
that
fame
Philo,
is
far
as
can be
gathred
living and
dying in
the
Jett,-
ifb
Religion,having been
employed by them
with
an
Apology
to
Rome
in
the
daim
Of
Caligula
But
3.
Suppofe
that
Marke
were
at ,41exandria
,
and preached
the Gofpel
there,
which
is
not improbable
,
and
planted fundry Churches
in
that great
and populous
City
of
Jewess
and
Gentiles
and
that
as
an
evangelic the
care
of
thofe Churches
was
upon him,
in
a
pecu-
liar manner nay
,
and adde farther
that
after
his
death
,
as Hierome
affures
us
,
the Elders
and
Presbyters
of
thofe Churcheschofe
out
one
among
themfelves
to
Prsfde
in
their convo-
cations &
meetings;lf
I
fay
all this be
fuppofed,
what
will cafue? why then
it
is
manifeft
that
there
was fixed
at Alexandria
a
Patriarchal Chain
,&
a
Metro
political
Church,
according
to
the
Appointment
of
Jefus
Chrift
by
his
Apoftles.Si
hoc non
ft
probationum fatir,nefcio
quid
ft
fa-
tia.lf
force few
congregations
live
together
in
love,and
communion,and the fellowfhip
of the
Gofpel
in
a
City
,
he
is
(lark blind
that
fees
not that to
be an Arch-
Bithops
See.
The
reafon
is
as
cleare
as
his in
the
comedian
for the freedome
of
his Wife. Sy:
ntinam Phrygian;
uxorem'
meamunii mecum
videam liberam.
Dem
:
Optimam
mulierem
guidon.
Sy:
Et
quidem nepoti
tto,hsejus filio,
hodié
primate
mammem dedit teat.
Dem:
herclé,
verb,ferio,
hquidem
primam de-
dit
baud dubium
gain emittio/Equum
fier. Mic:
oh
ram rem?
Demob
ram:
and
there
is
an end
of
the
conteft The
Dolour
indeed
bath fundry other Se$ions
added
to
thefe
foregoing,which
as
they concerne
times more remote
from thofe who
fiat
received
the
Apoflelical
infliturions,
fo
I
muff ingenioully profefs
that
I cannot
fee
any
thing
,
wheron to fatten
a
fufpition
ofd
proof
,
fo
far
as
to
call
it into
examination
,
and therefore I fhall abfolve the Reader
from
the penalty
of
this
Digref
ion.
The truth
is
when
I
fist
named
Ignatius for
a
wirnefs
in
the taufe
I am
pleading
for ,
I
lit-
tle
thought
of
that
excurfion which
1
have occafionally
been
drawn out unto.
When
firft
I
raft
an eye
Tome
few
months
fine
upon the Differtation
of
the
Learned
Dotior
,
in
defence
of
Epifcopacy.8e
law it
fo
Cheker'd
with
greekand
Latine,fo full
of
quotations
divine
& humane,
I
began
to think,
that
he
dealt with
his
Adverfaries,
baoife,,clypeifq&
resell erendibtee
that
there
would
be
no
flandingbefore
his
fhowre
of
arguments:but aftera
littlé
ferious perufal,I
E
a
muff