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A47742	A discourse shewing who they are that are now qualify'd to administer baptism and the Lord's-Supper wherein the cause of episcopacy is briefly treated / by the author of A discourse proving the divine institution of water-baptism.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1130; ESTC R25145	50,009	107

Episcopis atque Calcatis Pax à Presbyteris verbis fallacibus Prodicetur ibid. Antichristi jam propinquantis adventum Imitantur Ep. LXXX Successo Rescripsisse valerianum ad Senatum ut Episcopi Presbyteri Diacones in continenti animadvertantur Firmillanus Cypriano Ep. LXXV p. 225. Potestas ergo Peccatorum remittendorum Apostolis data est Episcopis qui eis Ordinatione vicaria successerunt Ep. XVI p. 36. Cyprianus Presbyteris Diaconibus Quod enim periculum metuere non debemus de offensa Domini quando aliqui de Presbyteris nec Evangelu nec Deci sue memores sed ne que futurum Domini Judicium neque sibi praepositum Episcopum cogitantes quod nunquam omnino sub Antecessorthus factum est cum Contumelia Contemptu Praepositi totum sibi vendicent Contumeliam Episcopatus nostri dissimulare ferre possum sed dissimulandi nunc locus non est Optatus Milevitanus Bishop of Mileve or Mela in Numidia in Africa A. D. 365. A.D. 365 In his 2d Book against Parmenian The Church has her several Members Bishops Presbyters Deacons and the Company of the Faithful You found in the Church Deacons Presbyters Bishops you have made them Lay-men acknowledge that you have Subverted Souls St. Ambrose Bishop of Milan A. D. 370. upon Eph. iv 11. Speaking of the several Orders of the Church And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and Evangelists c. Says that by the Apostles there were meant the Bishops by Prophets the Expounders of the Scriptures and by the Evangelists the Deacons But says that they all met in the Bishop for that he was the Chief Priest that is says he the Prince of the Priests and both Prophet and Evangelist to supply all the Offices of the Church for the Ministry of the Faithful And upon 1 Cor. xii 28. says that Christ Constituted the Apostles Head in the Church and that these are the Bishops And upon v. 29. are all Apostles i.e. all are not Apostles This is true says he because in the Church ther is but one Bishop And because all things are from one God the Father therefore hath He appointed that one Bishop shou'd Preside over Each Church In his Book of the Dignity of the Priesthood c. 3. he says That ther is nothing in this World to be found more Excellent than the Priests nothing more Sublime than the Bishops And speaking of what was Incumbent upon the several Orders of the Church he does plainly distinguish them For says he in the same place God does require one thing from a Bishop another from a Presbyter another from a Deacon and another from a Lay-man Optatus Milevitanus Bishop of Mileve or Mela in Numidia in Africa A. D. 365. l. 2. Contra Parmenianum Certa Membra sua habet Ecclesia Episcopos Presbyteros Diaconos turbam Fidelium Invenistis Diaconos Presbyteros Episcopos fecisiis La●cos agnoscite vos animas evertisse Quosdam dedit Apostolos A.D. 37● quosdam Prophetas c. Apostoli Episcopi sunt Prophetae Explanatores sunt Scripturum sicut Agabus Evangelist Diaconi sunt sicut fuit Philippus Nam in Episcopo omnes ordines sunt quia Princeps Sacerdos est hoc est Princeps est Sacerdotum Propheta Evangelista Caetera adimplenda offic●● Ecclesiae in Ministerio Eidelium Caput in Ecclesia Apostolos posuit Ipsi sunt Episcopi Verum est quia in Ecclesia unus Episcopus est Quia ab uno Deo Patre sunt omnia singulos Episcopos singulis Ecclesiis Prae-esse Decrevit De Dignat Sacerdot c. 3. ut ostenderemus nihil esse in hoc seculo Excellentius Sacerdotibus nihil Sublimius Episcopis reperiri Aliud est enim quod ab Episcopo requirit Deus aliud quod à Presbytero aliud quod à Deacono aliud quod à Laico St. Jerom A. D. 380. A. D. 380. In his Comment upon the Ep. to Titus When it began to be said I am of Paul I of Apollos c. and every one thought that those whom he Baptized belong'd to himself and not to Christ it was Decreed thro' The whole Earth that one Chosen from among the Presbyters shou'd be set over the rest that the Seeds of Schism might be taken away In his Epist to Evagrius From Mark the Evangelist to Heraclas and Dionysius the Bishops the Presbyters of Egypt have always chosen out one from among themselves whom having plac'd in an higher Degree than the rest they called their Bishop He that is Advanc'd is Advanc'd from less to greater The Greatness of Riches or the Humility of Poverty does not make a Bishop greater or less seeing all of them are the Successors of the Apostles That we may know the Apostolical Oeconomy to be taken from the Pattern of the Old Testament the same that Aaron and his Sons and the Levites were in the Temple the Bishops Presbyters and Deacons are in the Church of Christ To Nepotianus Be subject to your Bishop or Chief-Priest and receive him as the Father of your Soul Against the Luciferians The safety of the Ch. depends upon the Dignity of the High-Priest to whom unless a sort of absolute and eminent Power be given above all ther will be as many Schisms in the Church as ther are Priests Thence it is that without the Command of the Bishop neither a Presbyter nor a Deacon have Power to Baptize And the Bishop is to impose his Hands upon those who are Baptized by Presbyters or Deacons for the Invocation of the Holy Spirit And Comforting Heliodorus a Bishop upon the Death of Nepotian his Presbyter and his Nephew he Commends Nepotian in that he Reverenc'd his Bishop He Honour'd Heliodorus in publick as his Bishop at home as his Father But among his Presbyters and Co-equals he was the first in his Vocation c. Upon the 60th of Isa He calls the future Bishops Princes of the Church Of the Ecclesiastical Writers Concerning James James after the Passion of our Lord was immediatly by the Apostles ordained Bishop of Jerusalem The like he tells of the first Bishops of other Places Epist 54. against Montanus With us the Bishops hold the Place of the Apostles St. Jerom A. D. 380. A. D. 380. In his Comment upon the Ep. to Titus Postquam unusquisque eos quos Baptizabat suos putabat esse non Christi IN TOTO ORBE Decretum est ut unus de Presbyteris Electus superponeretur Caeteris ut Schismatum semina tollerentur A Marco Evangelista ad Heraclum usq●ad Dionysium Episcopos Presbyrari Aegypti semper unum ex se Electum in Clesiori Gradu collocatum Episcopum Nominabant Qui provehitur à Minori ad Majus provehitur Potentia Divitiarum Paupertatis Humilitas sublimiorum vel inferiorem Episcopum non facit Ceterum Omnes Apostolorum Successores sunt Ut sciamus Traditiones Apostolicas sumptas de veteri Testamento Quod Aaron Filii ejus

greatest Reverence to these Reformers and much more to the Authority of the First and Purest Ages of Christianity whose Fathers and Councils spoke all the High things before Quoted in behalf of Episcopacy far beyond the Language of our later Apologists for that Hierarchy or what durst now be Repeated except from such unquestionable Authority In this they imitate the hardness of the Jews who Built the Sepulchers of those Prophets whom their Fathers slew while at the same time they Adher'd to and out did the Wickedness of their Fathers in Persecuting the Successors of those Prophets FINIS ERRATA PAg. 3. col 2. l. 11. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 39. col 1. l. 10 11. r. All of you follow your Bishops col 2. penult r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 40. l. 16. A. D. 180. shou'd be on the Margent p. 42. col 2. l. 3. dele after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 44. col 2. l. 14. r. Ira. p. 45. col 2. l. 28. r. scripturarum p. 47. col 2. penult r. ad Heliodorum p. 51. col 1. l. 11 12 13 14. r. As likewise such other Clergy and as many as shall join with him but the Lay-men shall be Excommunicated ADVERTISEMENT WHereas I have plac'd the Apostolical Canons in the Front of the Councils before Quoted I thought fit to prevent needless Cavil to give this Advertisement that I do not contend they were made by the Apostles themselves but by the Holy Fathers of the Church about the end of the Second and beginning of the Third Century as a Summary of that Discipline which had been transmitted to them by Un-interrupted Tradition from the Apostles whence they have justly obtain'd the Name of The Apostolical Canons and as such have been Receiv'd and Reverenc'd in the succeeding Ages of Christianity The Councils Quoted after these Canons bear their Proper Dates and ther can be no Contest about them And what is Quoted of St. Ignatius and the other Fathers is from the most Uncontroverted Parts of their Works to obviate the Objection of Interpolations and Additions by the Noise of which our Adversaries endeavour to throw off or enervate their whole Authority and quite to dis-arm us of all that Light which we have from the Primitive Ages of the Church because it makes all against them Though they fail not to Quote the Fathers on their side whensoever they can Screw them to give the least seeming Countenance to their Novelties and Errors Yet Boldly Reject them All when brought in Evidence against them and that they can no otherwise struggle from under the weight of their Authority A Catalogue of Books Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West-End of St. Paul ' s Church-yard THE Snake in the Grass Or Satan transform'd into an Angel of Light Discovering the Deep and Unsuspected Subtilty which is couched under the Pretended Simplicity of many of the Principal Leaders of those People call'd Quakers The Second Edition with Additions Some Seasonable Reflections upon the Quakers Solemn Protestation against George Keith's Proceedings at Turner's-Hall 29. April 1697. Which was by them Printed and sent thither as the Reasons of their not Appearing to defend themselves Herein annex'd Verbatim By an Impartial Hand Satan Dis-rob'd from his Disguise of Light Or the Quakers Last Shift to Cover their Monstrous Heresies laid fully open In a Reply to Thomas Ellwood's Answer Published the End of last Mouth to George Keith's Narrative of the Proceedings at Turner's-Hall June 11. 1696. Which also may serve for a Reply as to the main Points of Doctrine to Geo. Whitehead's Answer to The Snake in the Grass to be Published the End of next Month if this prevent it not A Discourse proving the Divine Institution of Water-Baptism Wherein the Quaker-Arguments against it are Collected and Confuted With as much as is needful concerning the Lord's Supper These Four Books are Written by the Author of The Snake in the Grass The Quakers set in their True Light in order to give the Nation a clear sight of what they hold concerning Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Water-Baptism the Lord's Supper Magistracy Ministry Laws and Government Historically collected out of their most approved Authors which are their best Construing-Books from the year of their Rise 1650 to the year of their Progress 1696. By Francis Bugg Sen. An Essay concerning Preaching Written for the Direction of a Young Divine and useful also for the People in order to Profitable Hearing Crums of Comfort and Godly Prayers With Thankful Remembrances of God's wonderful Deliverances of this Land