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A87575	The angel of the Church of Ephesus no bishop of Ephesus, distinguished in order from, and superior in power to a presbyter. As it was lately delivered in a collation before the Reverend Assembly of divines. By Constant Jessop Minister of the Word at Fifeild in Essex. Imprimatur Charles Herle.	Jessop, Constantine, 1601 or 2-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing J699; Thomason E42_22; ESTC R11787	72,800	73

Ordination of the h Chap. 6. Deacons they carry themselves as Presbyters not as Apostles in the action permitting the election to the Disciples concurring with the Presbyters in the Ordination of them Adde hereunto one instance more out of the book of God The command of the holy Ghost concerning Barnabas and Saul i Chap. 13. ● Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the worke whereunto I have appointed them Paul had his call to the Apostleship immediately from the Lord some yeares before this and Barnabas his call to the Ministery for both of them had joyned together in the work of k Chap. 11.26 Antioch but being now by the Lords appointment to goe to the Gentiles and preach the Gospel unto them for that seemeth to be the great worke here spoken of by the Lord as l De rep hu l. 2. c. ● n. 13. Spalatensis hath rightly observed they are now commanded to be in a solemne manner set apart for this worke As the Lord himselfe by a voyce from Heaven gives them their immediate call and Authoritative Designation for this Office so their Externall Designation to it they have by his appointment also not from any one particular person either Bishop or Presbyter but from all those in the Church of Antioch which ministred to the Lord for so St Luke sets it down m Cha. 13 ● 3. As they ministred to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away From all which by the practice of the Apostles and by this voyce of God from heaven it is cleare as farre as I can apprehend that the Power of Ordination or Deputation to the Ministery and worke of the Lord therein should not doth not reside in the hand of any one particular person of what degree soever either Bishop or Presbyter but of the collective body of Pastours and Presbyters which minister unto the Lord. 2. If the Bishop will not beleeve his Opposites such as Parker that proud Schismaticke or Cartwright and Ames with their ignorant and malecontented followers some giddy corner-creeping upstarts Pag. 60 61. 148. these are not mine but Bishop Halls titles of honour wherewith he doth bespatter them if the judgement of Divines of greatest note in the Reformed Churches will strike any stroke we have them concurring in this that The Power of Ordination is in the hands of the Presbyters not of any one alone that though these charges are given to Timothy and Titus in particular yet doth it not follow that they alone could doe it I will onely mention one of many that might be alledged When Pamelius from those places undertakes to prove the Superioritie of Bishops above Presbyters Gonlartius answereth him thus n Annot. in Cyp. ep 65. The argument hath not strength enough in it Presbyters are ordained by Bishops therefore Bishops are above them The ancient Bishops were ordained by the Clergie and the people if any shall thence inferre therefore the Clergie and people are above the Bishops Pamelius and his Schollars will deny the Consequence Ordination doth not establish a degree or Preeminence but only sheweth and commendeth the Discipline of the Church 3. Besides Protestants we have Papists assenting to this truth and confessing 1. that Presbyters may ordain p Gloss in dist 66 cap. Porrò Johannes Semeca in his Glosse on the Canon Law proves it by this the Apostles were but Presbyters not Bishops yet they did ordaine and in their dayes there was no difference between a Presbyter and a Bishop And q Antis San ap Apol. Episc p. 165. Altissiodorensis hath delivered it that if there were but three Presbyters in the World they might ordaine one the other a bishop and an Archbishop and gives this reason for it Presbyters as well as Bishops doe receive the Keyes of the Kingdome in their Ordination for they are the successours of the Apostles 2. That Titus was left at Crete to ordaine Presbyters no otherwise then as a Moderator in the action and as a Consul or Dictator are said to create Consuls because they are they hold the Comitia or Assembly and meeting in which they are created Thus r In Tit. 1. d●sp 1. Salmeron as I shall afterward shew more at large out of him By this time I hope it doth appeare that this is not so palpable an elusion as the Bishop is pleased to stile it but rather so manifest a truth which the Bishop himself nor all the mitred Fathers of that order are able to disprove Thus much for Ordination from those charges I proceed to the next That precept of the Apostle x 1 Tim. 5 1● Against an Elder or Presbyter receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses is mainly insisted on by Dr Hall and others to prove that Timothy was invested with Episcopall Jurisdiction and so to conclude the Jurisdictionall Preeminence of a Bishop over the Presbyters yet the weaknesse of this argument hath bin already sufficiently discovered and the place answered to the full by our Polemicall Divines which have disputed against Papists from whom our Hierarchists have borrowed most of their weapons which they make use of in this quarrell It shall be therefore sufficient for me to mention the answer which is given by our Protestant Divines to their Romish Opposites in this cause First our Countreyman Dr Whitakers answereth Bellarmine that this place proves not Timothies power over Presbyters and from this place observeth that the power of Jurisdiction was not in the hand of one but of many that were endued with equall authoritie y Quod Timotheus jubetur non temere ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 admittere hoc non probat Timotheum in Presbyteros potestatem aut dominatum habuisse Nam ex Apostoli mente 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est crimen ad Ecclesiam deserre reum in judicium addacere palam reprehendere quod non modo superiore● possunt sed aequales etiam atque inferiores In Romana Repub. Equites non de populo tantum sed etiam de Senatoribus Patrioiis judicabant Et certè non videtur Timotheus tale consistorium aut forum babuisse quale post Episcopis in Ecclesia constitutum suit nam hi Presbyteri non alii quam Episcopi fuerunt ut ex Apostolo constat Qualis haec authoritas sucrit ex eo quod sequitur intelligi potest Eos qui peccant coram omnibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod aequales quoque possunt Sic elim Ep●scopesiquis Presby●es aut Episcopus male auauet ad Senatum Ecclesias●icum aut Synoaum reserebant ●umque si d●gnus videretur ●ublico jud●cio damnabant i. e. cut suspendebant aut excommunicabant aut removebant Whitak co t. ●●● 1 c. 2. sc 16. According to the meaning of the Apostle to receive an

whereto he was chosen in an extraordinary manner o 1 Tim. 1.14 Chap. 4.14 by the prophesies which went before concerning him For these extraordinary Offices had an extraordinary manner of vocation also as sundry p Vide Bez. Aq. Lyr. ●spenc Soto major in loc Divines testifie concerning Timothy induced thereto by the forementioned passages of Scripture Doe the work of an Evangelist which what it was Eusebius doth set forth at large where he speaks of some who performed it thus q Euseb Eccl. hist ●i 3 ca. 34. edit Easil an 1570. they did preach Christ to those which had not as yet heard the word of faith they delivered unto them the holy Scriptures ordained Pastors and committed unto them the charge of those which were newly received into the Church and then they did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passe over unto other countries and nations Whereas it is demanded r Bishop Hall ●●● cit p. 118. how should those Works of Ordination and execution of Church censures Which are constant and ordinary and so consequently deriveable to all successions to the end of the World be imposed upon a meere extraordinary agent this is a demand so senselesse and voide of all reason that I wonder it should fall from the pen of so learned and grave a Divine as Dr Hall but if he desire an answere I will returne it him in the words of Saravia a friend and fellow-stickler in their cause who will informe him that ſ Gradus ministrorom evangelli itasu●sse dist inctos ut majores includerent in erisrum ministeriae Sar. ad cap. 1. Bez. de div gra Min. Evang. The degrees of the Ministers of the Gospel were so distinguished that the greater did include the Ministeries of the lesser To the same purpose speakes Cajetan in Ephes 4. so that whatsoever were the acts of an ordinary and standing Minister of the Gospel the extraordinary Officer might performe them albeit the Ordinary officers might not presume with the execution of those which belonged to the extraordinary 2. If the Precepts given here in charge to Timothy and Titus concerne a Bishop alone then doth it concerne a Bishop alone to ſ ● Tim. 4.2 Preach the word in season and out of season to t Ch 1.6.1 Ep. Chap. 4.4 stirre up the gift of God that is in him and not neglect it to take heed to himself and his doctrine to flee covetousnesse and follow after righteousnesse godlinesse faith love These with many other precepts belong also to the Bishop and to him alone If our adversaries in this cause shall answer that these are duties belonging to all Ministers wherein they and Bishops doe participate but the other mentioned by them belong to a Bishop distinct from a Presbyter I shall return them the same reply which Gersom Bucerus doth to Dr Downham u Bucer p. 283. Quem istius distinctionis authorem proferemus Who hath taught us or them so to distinguish Surely the Apostle hath not for he makes not the least mention of what belongs to Timothy as a Bishop what to him as a Presbyter but gives all the commands promiscuously without any difference 3. For as much as those charges given to Timothy and Titus are so much insisted on to prove their Episcopall Power and consequently the Power and Preeminence of Bishops above Presbyters by the Apostles practice and recommendation I will take into consideration some of those which are materiall and see what strength they afford unto the cause That command given by the Apostle to Timothy Lay hands suddenly on no man and his appointing of Titus to ordaine Elders in every citie is strongly urged by the sticklers for Episcopall Soveraignty to prove that the Power of Ordination was in their hands alone Be there what Elders soever in Ephesus there hands without a Timothy will not serve to ordaine his without theirs might saith Bishop a Pa. 113. Hall very confidently but under favour and with respect to his gray haires very weakly Who seeth not how weak an inference this is Timothy is commanded not to ordaine any man suddenly Therefore Timothy alone had power to ordaine the Consequent may on just ground be denyed The President of a Colledge may be in a letter charged to take heed he admit not suddenly any man to a fellowship in the Colledge will it therefore follow that the power of Election and admittance is in the hands of the President alone For as much as this answer of those which are opposites to the Hierarchie who say that Timothy and Titus were to ordaine not by their owne power alone but by way of Partnership and Societie with the Presbyterie joyning with them is rejected by b P. 115. Bishop Hall as being so palpable and quite against the haire that he cannot think the authours of it can beleeve themselves I will therefore endeavour to confirme it and make it good 1. Since the Bishop will not beleeve what his Opposites say I would desire to know whether the Bishop doth beleeve that St Paul would invest Timothy and Titus with a greater power then he himselfe or the Apostles did exercise Now it is cleare that he did not assume the power of Ordination into his owne hands to execute it by himselfe but in it though he were as President to conduct and guide the action did conjoyne with himselfe the Presbyters in the Ordination of Timothy For albeit in c 1 Tim. 1.6 one place he speaketh of the imposition of his own hands alone yet in d Chap. 4.14 another he mentions the Presbytery as concurring with him in it Besides the Ordination of the Presbyters at Antioch was not the act of Paul alone but Paul and Barnabas at least or rather by comparing it with other places Paul and Barnabas with the Presbyters of Antioch did joyne together in the Ordination The phrase runnes in the plurall number e Act. 14.236 when they had ordained them Elders and had prayed with fasting From whence Gersom Bucerus doth argue thus f Dosser de gu● Eccl. p 321. If the Hierarchists doe on just ground perswade us that Ordination doth belong to the Bishops because the Apostles whom the Bishops as they say doe succeed did ordaine by the same reason may Presbyters also ordaine because the 70. Disciples whom the Presbyters doe succeed as they informe us did ordaine For Barnabas is by many Historians reckoned among the 70. Disciples If we look further into the actions of the Apostles we shall finde all their Ordinations not by their own power but by the joynt consent and concurrence of the Presbyters and Disciples When g Act. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys hom 3. in Act. c. 1. Matthias was chosen into the roome of Judas Peter doth all by the common consent of the Disciples nothing by his own authority nothing like a Lord or Prince in a commanding manner as Chrysostome hath observed So in the