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A68024	A parte of a register contayninge sundrie memorable matters, written by diuers godly and learned in our time, which stande for, and desire the reformation of our Church, in discipline and ceremonies, accordinge to the pure worde of God, and the lawe of our lande.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592. Demonstration of the trueth of that discipline which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the government of his Church, in all times and places, untill the ende of the worlde.	1593 (1593)	STC 10400; ESTC S101665	62,546	88

excellēcie aboue other men or the place whereof he is aboue other places But neither of these haue euer been neither hereafter can bee Therefore that office is vnlawfull Therefore if the office of the Archbishop be not of God if the originall of it bee vnknowne if in the Churche it be needlesse if all the giftes that God hath bestowed vppon his Ministerie bee appropriated vnto those Church officers whereof he is none if none may lawfully bestowe such an office vpon any if it can neither bee incident vnto any one man for his excellencie nor his place for preheminence then must it needes follow that his office is vnlawfull Caluin in his Institut booke 4. cap. 11. sect 7. alleadgeth diuers reasons to this purpose and Beza in his booke of Diuorcements stretcheth the same to all the inferiour officers vnder him saying Officials Proctours Promotours and all that swinish filth now of long time hath wasted the church So doth Peter Martyr vppon the Rom. 13. speaking against ciuill Iurisdiction in Bishops doth by the same reasons condemne it in their substitutes But this being the corner stone of their building they labour to support it with many props the most speciall wherof are these 1 Obiection Cypran saith lib 1. Epist. ad Cornelium Neither haue heresies and schismes risen of any other occasion then of that that the Priest of God is not obeyed neither one Priest for the time and one Iudge for the time in steede of Christ thought vppon to whome if the whole brotherhood woulde bee obedient according to Gods teaching no man woulde mooue any thing against the Colledge of Priests Answere This place is alleadged for the Pope and the answere that M. Iewel and others make to it serueth our turne onely let this be noted that Cyprian speaketh of the people at Rome that had receiued another Bishop besides Cornelius who was an heretike for all the course of his writings condemneth this superioritie It is expoounded by M. Iewel booke 1. sect 4. diuision 5. of euery Bishop and so is it by M. Nowel against Dorman booke 1. pag. 25. and also by M. Foxe tom 1. fol. 93. See T. C. in his 1. replie page 98. c. 2 Obiection The authoritie of the Archbishop preserueth vnitie Answere Cyprian lib. 4. Epist. 9. saith that vnitie is reserued by the agreement of Bishoppes that is of Ministers one with another 3 Obiection It compoundeth cōtrouersies that els would grow to many heades without any speciall remedie Answere Cyprian lib. 1. Epist. 13. saith that the plentifull bodie and companie of Elders are as it were the glewe of mutuall concord that if any of our company be authour of heresie the rest should helpe 4 Obiection Ierome vppon Tit. 1. saith that in the beginning a Bishop and Priest meaning a teaching Elder were all one but when men began to say I am of Paul I am of Apollo c. It was decreed that one shoulde bee chosen to beare rule ouer the rest Answere From the beginning it was not so the saying of Tertul. contra Prax. is fit for this that is true whatsoeuer is first and that is false whatsoeuer is latter and Ierome saith in the place alleaged that this authoritie is by custome and not by any institution of God if it had been the best waye to take away diuisions the Apostles in whose times the controuersies did arise would haue taken the same order 5 Obiectiō Caluin saith that the Apostles had one among them to gouerne the rest Answere That was not in superioritie but for order to propound the matters gather the voyces such like which is meete to be in euery well ordered meeting but his authoritie is no more ouer the rest then the speaker in the Parliament hath ouer the other knights and Burgesses 6 Obiection Paul was superior to Timothie and Titus Answere Paul and they had diuers offices whereof the Apostles office was the chiefe the like is to bee saide of Timothie and Titus hauing superioritie ouer the other Ministers for that they were Euangelists a degree aboue ordinarie Ministers Therefore if the place alleaged out of Cyprian make nothing for the Archb. if vnitie be not preserued by him but by the Bishops among themselues if his authoritie make nothing to the taking away of controuersies if it bee meerely inuented by man and not from the beginning if it bee by custome and not by any ordinaunce of God if neither one Apostle ouer the rest nor any of them ouer the Euangelistes nor of the Euangelists ouer the Pastours and Teachers will serue to proue their authoritie then must it needes followe that it is vtterly vnlawfull No man may be ordained vnto any office in the Church vntill there be such a place voide as hee is fit for T. C. booke 1. pag. 61. Whitgift pag. 222. 1 As was the 12. place for Matthias so is a certain church to euery Church officer But Matthias was not ordained vnto the place of an Apostle vntill Iudas by hanging himselfe had made it voide Act. 1. 20. Therefore may none be ordained vnto any office in the Church before the place where he may be imployed be destitute of such a one 2 As the Apostles did in planting of the churches so must it be done in the building thereof for euer But they ordeined neither Pastour Teacher Elder or Deacon butto some certaine church that had need thereof Therfore may none be ordained vnto any office vntill a place be voide that hath need of him 3 Those thinges that be of one beginning continuance and ending cannot bee one before or after another But a Minister and the execution of his Ministerie in a lawful standing be so for they be relatiues and haue reference one vnto the other Therfore a Minister ought not to be ordained before there be a Ministerie whereunto he is to be allotted 4 If none ought to be called to be a shepheard that hath no flocke of sheepe to keepe neither any watchman that is not allotted to some place to watch then may none bee ordained to any office before there be a place void for him for Ministers are in this sense tearmed shepheards and watchmen But the former is true as euery simple man can easilie perceiue Therefore the latter is true also 5 To doe contrary to the precepts and practise of the Apostles is vnlawfull But to ordaine any officer without a certaine place wherein he may bee imployed is contrarie to the precepts and practise of the Apostles as it appeareth Tit. 1. 5. Act. 14. 23. Therfore to ordaine any officer of the church without a certaine place whereunto he is to be allotted is vnlawfull 6 It was ordained that no Elder Deacon or any other Ecclesiasticall officer should be ordained a Apolelymenos that is loosely or let at randone but as afterwarde is expounded specially in a Church citie or towne 7 The ordination that is made without a title let

and the latter disprooued by these reasons following 1 As Churchofficers were ordayned in the Apostles time so must they be continually for they did lay the plot according wherevnto the Church must bee built vnto the ende but they were ordayned in the Apostles time by the layinge on of the handes of the Eldershippe Actes 6. 6. and 13. 3. Therefore the Church-officers must be ordained by layinge on of the handes of the Eldership 2 Church-officers must be ordayned by them that haue warrant from the worde to assure the parties ordayned that they are called of God Onely the Eldershippe hath such a warraunt 1. Tim. 4. 14. Therefore they ought to be ordained by the Eldership 3 Many of the sentences alleadged before out of Councells Emperours lawes histories and sounde writers both olde and newe for election not to be by one but by diuers speake also of ordination and so are forcible to this purpose 4 Euagrius came to the office of a Bishoppe vnlawfullie because onely Paulinus ordayned him contrarie to the tenure of many Cannons whiche prouide that they should not be ordained but by all the Bishoppes of the prouince or at the least by three 5 When a Bishop is to be ordayned c. one Bishop shall pronounce the blessing and the rest of the Bishops with the Elders present shall all lay on their handes 6 When a Bishop was to be ordayned the Bishops adioyning did ordayne him Therefore if Church-officers were ordayned in the Apostles time not by one but by the Eldershippe consistinge of manie if they be to ordayne that haue warraunt out of the worde to assure the parties ordayned that they are called of God if ordination by one Bishop be vnlawfull and contrarie to many canons of Councells if the Bishops Elders were to laye on their hands lastlie if the Bishops adioyning were to ordayne then must it needes followe that Church-officers are not to be ordayned by one man but by the laying on of the handes of the Eldership But they fight harde against this because it striketh at a maine pillar of their kingdome their chiefe groundes be these 1 Obiection Paule and Barnabas ordayned Elders where is no mention of any Eldership Aunswere They are saide to ordayne because they being the chiefe procured it so is Ioshua 5. 3. saide to circumcise which was the Leuites office so saye wee The Queene hath made a lawe and yet not she alone maketh any 2 Obiection Though it were so then yet is it not so required nowe no more then the cōmunitie in the Apostles time Answere There was no more communitie then for they that thinke otherwise are in that point Anabaptistes then is to be required now so that instance maketh for vs. 3 Obiection Examples are no generall rules to bee followed Answere Examples not contrarying any rule or reason of the Scripture be to be followed as if they were commaundementes so that notwithstanding any thinge alleadged to the contrarie it remayneth vpon the former groundes most stedfast that it belōgeth to the Eldership to ordayne those church officers that are to be imployed in the publike seruice of god CHAP. 8. THE ordayning of Church-officers must be done with humble prayer of the Eldership the congregation Discipl Ecclesiast fol. 50. Their vnreuerent beginning and proceeding therewith in a corner is contrarie to this whiche is condemned by the proofe of our assertion by these reasons 1 We are to behaue our selues in these actions as they by whom we haue direction to doe them haue set vs an example But the Apostles Elders when they ordayned church-officers did alwayes commende the action to God by prayer togither with those congregations ouer whiche they placed them Actes 6. 6. and 14. 23. Therefore the ordayninge of Church-officers must bee done by humble prayer of the Eldership and congregation 2 The greater the action is that is in hande the more carefull must they be that haue it in hande to humble them selues by prayer for the Lordes assistance therein but the ordayning of Church-officers is an action of moste weightie importance Therefore they that haue it in hande which be the Eldershipp to ordaine him and congregation to receyue him ought to humble them selues in earnest prayer before hande 3 They that shall haue part in the comfort or discomfort of the action are to ioyne togither in prayer vnto GOD for the better euent and against the worse But the Eldershippe and people shall both haue part in the euent of the action Therefore they are to ioyne togither in humble prayer before hande c. CHAP. 9. CHurch-officers must bee ordayned by layinge on of handes in this they agree with vs concerning the ceremonie it selfe albeit neyther in the parties by whō nor on whom it must be conferred The profit of this ceremonie appeareth in the reasons following 1 That which stirreth vp euerie partie to pray with more feruencie is profitable to be vsed But such is this ceremonie for it affecteth the ordeyners when they feele him for whom they pray and the ordeyned when he feeleth a calling and charge from God as it were sensiblie comming vppon him and the congregation when they see him separated frō the rest by whom they shall reape much comfort or griefe Therefore the vse of it is very profitable 2 That which helpeth forward the partie ordayned in his care to walke with a good conscience in his calling is profitable to be vsed Such is the imposition of handes for both it declareth vnto him that he is separated of God for that purpose and also giueth him hope that his hande who allotted him therevnto will alwayes assist him in the course of that calling Therefore it is of a profitable vse 3 That which worketh a more acknowledgment of Gods ordinance in the heartes of the people is profitable to be vsed Such is the layinge on of handes for it declareth vnto them that the Lorde hath placed him in that callinge ouer them Therefore it is profitable to be vsed Therefore seeing the ceremonie of the laying on handes is forcible to increase the feruencie of euery partie when they pray seeing it assureth the callinge to the partie ordayned and giueth him an argument of good hope for the blessing of God vpon him in the course of the same and seeinge it procureth a more perswasion in the people that hee is allotted vnto them from the Lord him selfe it is euident that it is not a vaine and idle ceremonie as many doe imagine but of good and profitable vse in all ordinations CHAP. 10. THe Lorde hath ordayned that there should be one Bishopp or Pastor at the least president ouer euery congregation who are of equal authoritie in their seueral charges and in the generall gouernement of the Church T. C. 1. booke page 22. and 2. booke 1. part page 515. They mainteyne contrarie vnto this these two 1 That one may haue two or moe charges

doe declare that the Deacons were to bee wholy imployed in the distributing of the goodes of the Church then must it needes followe that his office is not to meddle with any parte of the ministerie of the worde and Sacramentes but to attende onelie vpon the distributing of the liberalitie of the Church vnto them that stande in neede thereof Their obiections herevnto be these two that followe 1 Obiection Philip one of the seuen Deacons did preach Act. 8. 8. Therefore Deacons may preach the worde Answere Philip was a Deacon of the Church at Ierusalem while they aboade togither but nowe hee was not anie more so but an Euangelist as he is euer tearmed after by vertue of which office he did preache 2 Obiection Steuen being a Deacon preached Act. 7. 2. Answere He preached not for all that is there was but his Apologie at the seate of iudgement which euery man in the like case may doe and which manie of the Martyrs haue done So that the former proposition beeing true vppon the groundes alleadged notwithstanding these obiections wee are to proceede to the seconde which is this There ought to be such Deacons as are described in the former proposition in euerie congregation whiche is thus prooued 1 That office which euerie congregation hath neede of ought to be in euerie congregation But euery congregation hath neede of the Deacons office whiche appeareth by this that they haue poore to prouide for or els they must regard the necessitie of others and the liberalitie of others to distribute Therefore Deacons ought to be in euery congregation 2 That whiche is indefinitely appointed for the good of the Churche belongeth vnto euery Congregation as well as to anie one But such is the appointment of the Deacons 1. Tim. 3. 8. Therefore there must be Deacons in euery Congregation 3 Euery Church ought to haue their office of Deaconshippe 4 All the reasons or the most of them that are alleadged chap. 10. for a Bishop in euery congregation and chap. 12. for Elders in euery congregation are forcible herevnto Therefore if there bee the like neede of Deacons in one congregation that is in another if they be appointed indefinitely for the good of the Church if euery church must haue their office of Deaconship and lastlie if there be like reasons to prooue them belong to euery Church that be for Bishops and Elders then must it needes followe that there ought to be Deacons in euery congregation CHAP. 14. THere ought to bee in euery Congregation an Eldershipp consisting of a pastor or pastors Doctor if there be anie and Elders whose authoritie Christ hath ordayned to be perpetuall in his church to gouuerne the same onely by the rules of Gods worde T. C. 1. booke pag. 175. Discip. Ecclesiast 123. which contayneth these 3. particular propositions defended by vs and gaynesayde by the Bishops and their adherents 1 The Eldership ought to be in euery Congregation 2 The office of the Eldership is perpetuall 3 The Church must be gouerned onely by the rules of Gods worde The first is denyed by them Whitgift page 627. and by their practize in tying the gouernement of many churches to the Bb. sea it is thus prooued 1 Whatsoeuer Christ hath ordayned as a meane to keepe men in obedience to the gospell that same must be in euerie congregation for particular men are in particular congregations But Christ hath ordayned the Eldership for that end as appeareth Matth. 18. 15. c. where Chrisost expoundeth Tell the Church that is sayeth hee the Gouuernours of the Church Therefore the Eldershippe ought to bee in euery Church 2 Where all sortes of Elders ought to be there must be also the ioyning of their offices in one for the good of that cōgregation ouer which they are placed But all sortes of Elders ought to be in euerie congregation as is prooued in the 10. chapter for Bishops the 12. for Elders c. Therfore there must be an Eldership in euery congregation 3 If no particular congregation haue greater priuiledges giuen therevnto by the worde of God then others haue then must there eyther be no Eldershipp at all whiche is false in that Elders are prooued to bee by the worde of God in the Church or els it must be in euery congregation But euerie congregation is of like priuiledge whiche appeareth by this that it is a perfect bodie of it selfe Therefore there must bee an Eldership in euery congregation 4 The same warrant that is in the worde of God for to haue an Eldership in one place is a warraunt for it in all for the worde of God tyeth it not to Churches in cities but indefinitely to the church But there is warrant for it out of the worde to be somewhere as appeareth by this that the Apostles are sayd to establishe it and make mention of it Therefore it must be in euery congregation Therefore if the Eldership bee ordayned by Christ as a meanes to keepe men in obedience vnto the Gospell if all sortes of Elders must be in euery church if euery congregation be of equall priuiledges lastly if there be the like warrant for it in euery church that is in any then must it needes followe that there ought to be an Eldershipp in euerie Congregation What soeuer is obiected against this that hath any shew in it is answered in the 12. chap. of Elders The office of the Eldership is ordayned by Christe to bee perpetual and ordinarie for the gouernement of his church T. C. 1. booke 177. denied by them Whitgift 627. and by their practize in keeping it out but the trueth of it appeareth by these reasons that doe follow 1 If the causes why Christ would haue an Eldershippe in his Church be perpetuall then must also the thing it selfe be perpetuall But the causes are perpetuall which bee to gouuerne the church by the rules of his worde and that ecclesiastically Therefore the Eldership is perpetuall 2 If Christ be the author of the Eldership and left it by the Apostles to be established in the Church then it is perpetual for his commission giuen to the Apostles is to bee obserued vnto the ende of the worlde But Christ is the author of it as appeareth both by his giuing of the giftes for the particular members thereof and the whole body of it as also in that the Apostles did establishe it in the church who went not frō their commission 1. Cor. 11. 12. Therefore the Eldershippe is perpetuall 3 Whatsoeuer is the commandement of God once deliuered by him is neuer repealed againe and to be acknoweledged of euery spirituall man that same is to be receyued by the Church of God to be perpetuall But such is the gouernment of the church by Pastors Doctors and Elders and so of the whole Eldership as appeareth in that they are all mentioned in the writings of S. Paule whiche are so esteemed 1. Cor. 14. 37. Therefore the

the Church be more then any one can perfectlie discharge if the Apostles founde them selues vnfit for two offices of like nature if we iustlie reprooue the papistes for their two swordes if a Magistrate may not preache if they may not meddle with worldlie offices nor be tutours to Orphans but attende onely vnto the ministerie of the worde c. if they may neither vsurpe nor take being offered any ciuill office if they be to be distinguished to seueral persons or els one hindereth the other lastlie if none bee able to execute both then must it needes followe that Ecclesiasticall officers may not beare ciuill offices and consequentlie the office of the church-gouernement is meere Ecclesiasticall Their obiections herevnto be these 1 Obiection It countenanceth and maintayneth religion to haue ciuill authoritie Answere It is in deede the papistes reason for their two swordes which M. Caluin confuteth Institut booke 4. cap. 11. sect 9. 2 Obiction It is good to punish vice by corporall punishment that Gods worde may be the better obeyed Answere It is good to preache Gods worde to men that they may obey their Prince for conscience sake may the Magistrate therefore preache we may not doe euery thing that is good but onely that which is agreeable to our callings 3 Obiection Eli and Samuel were both Priests Iudges Answere They were extraordinarie for God separated those two offices in Moses and gaue the one vnto Aaron so was Eliahs killing of the false prophetes Christes whipping of the buyers and sellers out of the Temple 4 Obiection Peter killed Ananias therefore Bishops may haue prisons Answere It was by his worde onely and not by any ciuill punishement if they can doe the like Peters example will serue their turnes if not then must it bee with the former extraordinarie CHAP. 16. THe placing and displacing of Church-officers appertayneth vnto the Eldership This is prooued in the 7. chap. and their obiections are there aunswered for the first part which is the placing but the latter part is to be cleared by some moe reasons because the Bishops doe displace the best Ministers at their pleasure which is prooued to be a most wicked action by these reasons 1 Those that are called vnto the ministerie by the Lorde from heauen and out wardlie by the meanes of men so long as they are blameles in doctrine and conuersation 1. Tim. 3. 10. can not be displaced without hainous wickednes against the manifest will of God But such are the Ministers that the Bishops doe daily displace as they confesse them selues when euen in their sermons they iustifie their doctrine in saying that they differ onely in outwarde rites and as their greatest enimies will saye when they are asked of such mens liues Therefore they can not bee displaced without great wickednes 2 Those that are carefull to discharge the duetie of Gods Ministers both in teaching and giuinge example to their flockes can not be displaced without great impietie Such are these Ministers that are daily displaced as appeareth by this that they preache more diligentlie then any other and that they followe not the course of the worlde in adding liuing vnot liuing but many of them being as woorthie for their giftes as the worthiest liue poorelie rather then they will want the comfort of a good conscience Therefore they can not be put to silence without great sinne 3 To depriue Gods people of their spirituall comfort is a grieuous and horrible wickednes To put such to silence as are before mentioned is to depriue Gods people of their spirituall comfort which if anie man will denie all the godlie where such a one dwelleth shall tell him hee lyeth Therefore to displace such Ministers is a haynous and horrible wickednes 4 That which giueth occasion to the weake to stumble fall away from the Gospell is a haynous and horrible sinne But such is the displacing of those Ministers as appeareth by this that many doubt whether that which he hath taught be true whom the professors of the Gospell doe displace and by this that many who had made good beginnings by the discontinuance of their Teachers doe fall away Therefore to displace those Ministers is a haynous and horrible sinne 5 Those whose labours God doeth blesse can not bee displaced without fighting against God and consequentlie great impietie But such are the Ministers that the Bb. doe daily displace as all that loue the Gospell in euery countrie can witnes Therefore to displace them is great impietie 6 That action whiche giueth the common enimie iust cause to reioyce and hope to get the victorie is a haynous horrible offence But such is the displacing of those Ministers as appeareth in euery countrie where such Ministers are displaced and such enemies doe dwell Therefore to displace such is a haynous and horrible offence 7 That action that causeth the doers thereof to bee esteemed enimies to the Gospell must needes be a haynous sinne But such is the putting of those Ministers to silence for it maketh the people that haue any loue to religion thinke that they are not of God in so doing for say they hee that loueth Christ can not crosse the course of the Gospell as these men doe Therefore the displacing of them is a haynous sinne 8 That which letteth in more wickednes at once then the diligent preaching of the worde could driue out in diuers yeares must needes be a haynous sinne But such is the displacing of these Ministers for prophaning of the Saboth and all disorder commeth into a congregation the same day that such a Minister that hath long laboured against it is displaced as experience in such places prooueth Therefore to displace such ministers is a haynous sinne 9 That which interrupteth the course of the Gospel without warraunt eyther from Gods worde or the lawes of the lande is a haynous and horrible sinne Such is the displacing of those Ministers as is prooued in all the writinges on our side and lastlie in the answere to D. Bridges therefore to displace such Ministers is a haynous and horrible sinne Therefore if the Ministers that be vsuallie displaced bee called of God if they discharge the duetie of good ministers both in doctrine and life if the displacing of them be to depriue Gods people of their spirituall comfort if it giue occasion to some to doubt of the Gospell and to fall away if God giue a blessing vnto their labours if the displacing of them giue the enimie matter to reioyce and hope to ouercome if it cause the displacers to be esteemed enimies to the Gospell if it let in more wickednesse in one day then preachinge can throwe out in many yeeres if it interrupte the course of the Gospell without warrant eyther from the worde of God or lawes of the lande then must it needes followe that the displacing of those Ministers is a most haynous and horrible sinne against the Lord. CHAP. 17. THe Eldership is to

Connterp pag. 11 Matth. 21. 25. 26. Math. 28. 20 Cyprian in sermone de baptismo Christi Cyprian de prescrip aduersus h●ret Cyprian li. 1. Epist. 8. The conclusion The first proposition The second proposition Reason for the first proposition Ioh. 1. 23. 25. Numb 16. The cōclusion The conclusion The 2. proposition reasons for the proofe of it That the name of archb may be giuen no man 1. Pet. 5. 4. Heb. 13. 20. Actes 3. 15. 5. 31. Hebr. 12. 2. Obiections for the name of Archb. and answeres thereunto VVhitegift page 318. That the office of an Archb. is vnlawfull The conclusion Obiections for the office of the Archb. and answeres thereunto The conclusion The 3. proposition reasons for it Act. 1. 20. Councel Calced ca. 6. art 15. Concil Vrbanum test Grat. di 70. Ierom ad Nepotian The conclusion Our assertion Their assertion Concil Ni. canon 15. Conc. to 2. Theod. lib. 1. cap. 19. The conclusion Our assertion Num. 8. 9. Cyprian booke 1. epist. 3. Ambrose epist 82. Ierome ad Ruffinum Ad Nepotianum This is right our English fashion Nazianze Augustin Basil. epi. 58 Chrisost. in Act. 1. Concil Ni. teste Theo. The same Conc test hist. tripart lib. 2. Conc. constan test tri par hist. lib. 9. cap. 14. Concil car tag can 1. Conci Toletan test dist 51. Concil Gabil can 10. Iusti. in co Carol. magnus dist 63. sacrorū canonum Lodouicus Caro. filius Platina in vita Adriani secundi The cōclusion T. C. secōd booke 1. part pa. 212. The 1. proposition The 2. proposition The 1. proposition is thus prooued August lib. de past Gregor 1. epist. 33. Ierome ad Oecumen Confes. Heluet. The 2. proposition is thus prooued Theodoret. booke 5. ca. 23. 4. Concil Carthag cap. 23. Cyprian li. 1. epist. 4. The cōclusion The conclusion Reasons against the 1. propofit Hooper vpon the 8. commandement The conclusion The 2. propositiō that they holde and reasons against it Cyprian li. 1. Epist. 3. Luther aduertus pap c. Museul lot com de minist verbi Idem vpon 2. Thes. 2. Conf. Helu cap. 17. Idem ca. 18. The conclusion A Bishoppe should bee in euerie congrega Ignat. ad Philadel Epipha li. 3. tom 1. haere 75. 2. Concil Cartha to 1. cap. 10. 3. Concil tom 1. ca. 8. a Euseb. li. 5. cap. 16. b Theodo lib. 5. cap. 4. c Socrat. 4 26. d Quest. 16 dilt ●0 Ierome ad Euag●um Acts monumentes fol. 216. Hooper vpon 8. com pag. 90. The conclusion Igna. ad Tral Tertul. de Bapt. Ierome contra Lucif Ambr. vpō 1. Tim. 5. Possidon in vita Augu. Socrat. libr. 5. cap. 22. Bucer de regno Christ. P. Mar. vpō Rom. 12. Idem 1. Cor. 12. Caluin Institut lib. 4. cap. 3. se. 8. The conclusion Reasons prouing elders as necessarie vnder a Christian Magistrate as in the Apostles time The firste propositiō 6. Concil Con. ca. 16. Concil va Can. 4. Chrisost. vpon Act. 6. Bulling decad 5. ser. 2. Bucer de re Christi 14. P. Mart. Rom. 12. Caluin in li. 4. ca. 3. s. 9 Beza confe cap. 5. se. 23. Igna. ad Philadel The conclusion The proofe of the firste propositiō The second propositiō See the answere to D. Bridges pag. 132. Cōfe Heluet Tigur Bern. Gene. Polo Hun. Scotl. ca. 18. Caluin in li. 4. ca. 3. s. 8. P. Mart. Rom. 3. Bucer de re Christi 15. M. Whitak against Duraeus Obiection against the perpetuitie of the Eldership and answeres to the same The 3. proposition Can. App. cap. 80. Conc. Cal. cap. 3. 7. 4. Concil Cart. ca. 20. Caluin in lib. 4. ca. 11. sect 9. Beza confe cap. 5. sect 32. 42. P. Martyr vpon 10. 13. Bucer vpon Matth. 5. The conclusion Obiections for ciuil of fices in Ecclesiasticall persons The conclusion Suspention warranted by the word being vpon such groūds as the word setteth down The conclusion The proofe of the firste proposition The conclusion The proofe of the secōd proposition Cyprian li. 3. epist. 10. Epist. 14. Epist. 19. Tertul. Apo cap. 39. Augu. lib. 3. cont epist. permen Ierom. ad Demetriad epist. 1. Bucer de regno Christ. lib. 1. cap. 9. P. Martyr in 1. Cor. 5. Caluin in st●t lib. 4. cap. 11. se. 6. Cha. 12 se. 6 See Abstract page 165. The conclusion The conclusion of the whol book a Chap. 1. b Cha. 10. and 11. c Chap. 4. d Chap. 7. e Chap. 10. f Chap. 10 g Chap. 1● h Chap. 13 i Chap. 14. k Chap. 17 l Chap. 18. m Chap. 19