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A47044 A sermon preached at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Ambrose Lord Bishop of Kildare in Christ-Church, Dublin, June 29, 1667 / by the right reverend father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of Meath. Jones, Henry, 1605-1682. 1667 (1667) Wing J948; ESTC R5267 35,856 90

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a Bishop in anothers D●ccess or a busie body in other mens matters so is that in our English rendred whereas the same work is in the hands of Bishops far otherwise who as they do it themselves so is it in them in way of Superintendency to see it done by others also So the chief Priests under the Law whom the Apostles and afther them Bishops represent they were Overseers to others that the work be done in manner and order as did become Thus are Bishops overseers to those other Overseers the care of many Churches being on them as was the cure of all Churches on the Apostles whereas the care of particular Churches this or that is onely on others 2. Although Presbyters have power to preach and do what belongs to their Function yet are they in acting that power limited and ordered by the Bishop Wherein we are to distinguish as in the Schools between Power of Order and of Jurisdiction Power of Order Presbyters receive in their Ordination to do what belongs to their function to which they are thereby qualified but the Power of Jurisdiction to act that their power of Order as ●astors that a Presbyter hath in his Institution from the Bishop being thereby appointed to a charge and place and licensed to discharge the duty of his calling to which he was before qualified and now enabled Tertullian saith That the chief Priest which is the Bishop hath the right of giving Baptism and then the Presbyters and Deacons but yet not without the Authority of the Bishops So also S. Hierome Without power from the Bishop neither Presbyter nor Deacon hath right to baptize Every Presbyter therefore hath power in common with a Bishop to preach and administer the Sacraments in fulness which an inferior Order a Deacon cannot do yet the exercise of that power is subjected to and regulated by the Bishops authority to be permitted directed restrained or suspended as should be necessary In which the Bishops priviledge of Jurisdiction over Elders is he from them eminently differenced It was said of Elders that they have a power of Jurisdiction understand it of a power of spiritual and inward Jurisdiction in foro conscienciae in the Court of Conscience so as Pastors of the flock is committed to them the seeding ruling teaching reproving binding sinners notoriously scandalous by denouncing Gods judgements in the Word and while unreformed excluding from the Sacrament and again loosing and releasing penitents by applying the gracious promises of the Gospel and readmiting them to the use of the Ordinances But that Jurisdiction which is in Bishops is more extended and that even over Elders themselves For as Presbyters are in their Ordination qualified and by their Institution authorized to their work so are they after to behave themselves in that as becometh It is in Bishops who are overseers of those Overseers to expect and exact that from them authoritatively and on failing in duty or manners as to life and conversation to reprove and punish also In this is Episcopal Jurisdiction given them Apostolically and over inferior Elders particalarlarly to which they are subjected Such was Timothies power in Ephesus Rebuke not an Elder and against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses them that sin rebuke before all that others may fear Which words Rebuke not an Elder is not a restraining but an ordering that rebuke that it be not lightly or on slight grounds as in 1 Tim. 5. 19 20. by which appears a Jurisdiction in Bishops above Elders directive coercive and corective which is Epiphanius his interence on these words against a Presbyter c. Therefore saith he Presbyters are subject to the Bishop as to their Judge He is their Judge as to Doctrine that thou mayest charge some that they teach no other Doctrine saith the Apostle to Timothy 1 Tim. 1. 3. and to Titus Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an Heretick ofter the first and second admonition reject judge also as of their Doctrine what they teach so of their Conversation how they live as you have heard in that of 1 Tim. 1. 5 17 20 21. Therefore is the Angel of the Church of Ephesus Timothies Successor commended that he could not bear with them that are evil and had tryed them which say they are Apostles and are not and had found them lyars Rev. 2. 2. On the contrary the Angel of the Church of Thyratira is reproved for suffering such Rev. 2. 20. So as although there be a Community of names in some cases between Bishops and Elders Bishops are called Elders and Elders Bishops and notwithstanding that the worke also be in a kind common yet is that community so differenced in both that all pretences of Elders in that for casting of Bishops as to their Office or divesting them of Jurisdiction and Dignity is apparently inconsequent and evil For although the names of Bishops and Presbyters were confounded and the work in a sort common to both yet were not the Offices of Bishops and Presbyters ever confounded until now 1. And now to sum up al● you see the Church under the New Testamen ordered as before in way of Superiority and Subordination and that Apostolically appointed So Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Crete and others elsewhere in like manner they ordering persons and things appertaining to that sacred work within their respective Jurisdictions 2. See those Apostolically ordered to that care and charge in the Church above others to be by the Apostles dignified with their own name that standing name of Bishops they standing also in their place and stead and acting in their work Ordaining Overseeing Ordering and Correcting as is necessary 3. What hath been by the Apostles so ordered in the Church whose words Christ would have to be observed as his own If they have kept my saying they will keep yours also John 15. 20. that in this particularly hath been by Christ himself the High Priest approved For as the High Priest did Christ appeare habited being cloathed with a garment down to the feet and girt vbout the paps with a golden girdle and also visiting his Church Ecclesiatim each of the seven Churches particularly being by him inspected In that reproving what was amiss in any and allowing what was right particularly See that Government which was ordered in each of those eminent Churches in Ephesus and the other six under their respective Angels or Chiefs or Bishops see that order I say in the Church approved of Christ for the Seven Stars the seven Angels Angels of those Churches their Bishops were in Christs right hand Rev. 1. 16. 20. that is under his care and protection And to those Angels of the Churches doth our Lord direct himself principally in behalf of all under their charge expecting from them an accompt of the Churches within their respective Jurisdictions each of them being responsible for all that was there well or otherwise 4. Lastly What
Episcopal government had not had an indubitable Institution from the authority of Christ and his Apostles or if any other forme of Church government could have pretended to such Instruction it had been the most impossible thing in the world when their neither was any outward certain power to enforce it nor could be any general Council to stablish it to have introduced such a forme of government so suddenly and quietly into all Christian Churches and not the spirit of one Presbyter for 〈◊〉 that appeareth for above 300. years to 〈◊〉 been provoke either through zeal ambition or other motive to stand up in the just defence of their own and the Churches libertie against such usurpation These are his Majesties words Thus doth Episcopacy derive from the first times and shews it self generally received and continued by a Succession of after ages in the Christian Church Which that by Elders without Bishops cannot shew By this Tertullian concludes for the Catholick Church against Heretiques Let them saith he shew the beginning of their Churches let them run over the Succession of their Bishops so as the first of them may have one of the Apostles or Apostolique men to be a founder or predecessor So Apostolique Churches derive themselves So doth the Church of Smyrna shew Policarpus placed there by John and Rome Clements ordained by Peter so have other Churches those who were by the Apostles appointed Bishops by whom the Apostolique seed or race is derived or continued so Tertullian de Praescript advers Haeretic c. 33. thus was it of old and from th beginning unto these later times when the change of that ancient forme of Church Government began that being occasionally brought in it troubles to say it with the Reformation Then I say was that occasioned rather than designed or approved by the first Reformers For the truth and puritie of the Gospel being then opposed and persecuted by Popish Bishops thereby were those Reformers enforced to act in that work of Reformation without those Bishops whom they could not gain and who were to them so contrary Yet did not those Reformers in that cast off Episcopacy with aversness to the Order but onely in respect of those individual persons of the Popish Bishops oppressing they the Reformers in the mean time professing for Episcopacy and greatly desiring it if it might be It is 〈◊〉 by us endea●oured say they that Bishops be deprived of Government or Power but it is desired that they suffer the Gospel to be purely preached and we have oft protested That we do greatly approve the Ecclesiastial Politie and degrees in the Church and as much as in us lieth we desire to preserve them We do not dislike the authority of Bishops so that they would not compel us to do against Gods commandments and yet again We do here protest and we would have it to be recorded that we would willingly have the Ecclesiastical and Canonical Politie if the the Bishops cease to tyrannize over our Churches This our desire shall excuse us with all posterity both before God and all Nations All which we have in that famous Augustan confession of the Reformers who from the word protest so frequent there had then and thence the name of Protestants they being there first called Protestants as first Christians at Antioch This Augustan Confession or Profession or Protestation was signed by the more eminently Learned in that age and work of Reformation Among whom even Calvin was a Subscriber Yet did others of the chief Reformers adhere to their professions made concerning the right of Episcopacy both as to Order and Jurisdiction concluding that in Justice it ought not to be violated By what right or Law saith Melan●thon to Camerarius may we dissolve the Ecclesiastical Politie if the Bishops will grant us what in reason they ought to grant and though it were lawful yet surely it were not expedient And he writing to Luther You will not believe how they of Noricum and others hate me Propter restitutam Episcopis Jurisdictionem for restoring the Jurisdiction of Bishops And Camerarius in the life of Melancthon saith thus of him h Melancthon non modo adstipulatore sed etiam authore ipso Luthero c. Melancthon not onely by the consent but even by advice also of Luther perswaded that if Bishops would grant free use of the true doctrine the ordinary power and administration of their several Diocesses should be restored to them and even Beza who succeeded Calvin in Geneva for the space of ten years in like authority duering which time he was strict in his Judgment as to his discipline Yet after Danaeu's his comeing thither whereby that course of continueing long in that place was altered and Beza laid by Then could he find those inconveniences in that course which he could not now remedie onely wishing it were otherwise So speaking of the 34th Canon of those called the Apostles Canons concerning the power of Metropolitans over Bishops Quid aliud saith Beza hic statuitur quam ordo ille quem in omnibus Eccles●is restitutum cupimus what is in this appointed but that order which we wish maybe restored in all the Ghurches I shall but add that of Zanchius one of the most learned of that side He in a confession or profession of Faith by him composed speaking of Church Orders and saying that Arch bishops and Patriarchs may be defended And sending that his confession to others for their approbation and consent in it he found exceptions taken at that said by him concerning those Church Orders his words are A certain eminent person did write to me thus what you write of your confession hath been by me and by N. and others received with great delight it being learnedly written and in an accurate method with which I was greatly pleased if you except what in the end you add of Archbishops and that Hierarchy On which Zanchius maketh for himself this Apologie when saith he I wrote this confession of Faith I did write all things out of a good conscience and as I believed so did I freely speak Now my faith is grounded chiefly and simply on the word of God something also in the next place on the common consent of the whole Ancient Catholique Church if that be not repugnant to the Scriptures I do also beleive that what things were defined in Councils and received by the godly Fathers gathered together in the name of the Lord by common consent of all without any gainsaying of the holy Scriptures that those things also though they be not of the same authority with the holy Scriptures proceeded from the holy Ghost Hence it is that those things that ●e of this kind I neither will nor dare with a good conscience dislike But what is more certain out of History Councils and writings of all the Fathers then that those Orders of Ministers whereof I speake were established and received by the
end of the World Of which and of the correspondence of both Testaments S. Hierom speaks thus That we may see Apostolical Traditions to be taken out of the Old Testament look what Aaron and his Sons and the Levites were in the Temple the same let the Bishops Priests and Deacons challenge in the Church And We know Bishops and Priests to be what were Aaron and his Sons And S. Cyprian calleth Bishops the Apostles Successors All Bishops are the Apostles Successors saith S. Hierom. And as so do we finde the Apostles name place and work to have been by the Apostles given to these their Successors II. As to the Name The very name of Apostle is so given to Epaphroditus Bishop of the Philippians as Bullinger calls him him doth S. Paul call their Apostle Philip. 2. 25. so is it in the Original whereas in our English it would be enquired how well it is rendred Messenger For S. Ambrose on those words He Epaphroditus is by the Apostles made their Apostle And S. Hierome writing on those words My Fellow Souldier and your Apostle Fellow Souldier saith he by reason of his honor because he also had received the Office of being an Apostle among them Again By those chosen by our Lord were others ordained Apostles as appears in that to the Philippians Phil. 2. 25. Epaphroditus your Apostle so S. Hierom. Coment in Gal. 1. 19. But that name Apostle was not intended for a lasting name as Theodoret observeth In time past they called the same men Presbyters and Bishops and they who are now called Bishops they named Apostles but in process of time they left the name Apostle to them properly called Apostles and the name of Bishop they gave to them who had been Apostles Apostle was their name and even that name of Bishop now more fixed is what they had from the Apostles from whom they derive their Office that of Bishop was the Apostles own name of Office So Judas numbred with the Apostles and obtaining part of the same Ministry with them the Apostleship that his Apostleship is called his Office so we read it but by the LXX it is rendred his Bishoprick let another take his Office or Bishoprick which word Bishoprick is is used by the Apostle S. Peter citing that in Psalm 109. 8. according to the LXX and what is there called by the name of Bishoprick is after called Apostleship The Apostles were Bishops which are the words of S. Ambrose in Ephes. 4. 11. 2 Cor. 12. 28. And that name of Bishop was derived to the Apostles from those from whom under the Old Testament they derive if I may so say I mean these Chief Priests called in our English Overseers but by the LXX Bishops Overseers and Bishops are the same the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers so in our English but in the Greek Bishops which the Apostles name Bishop is thus given you see to their Successors Bishops to this day Thus as Christ the High Priest hath the Name of Apostle Heb. 3. 1. and Bishop 1 Pet. 2. 25. and as they sent by him his Apostles were so also called so are in like manner they who are by the Apostles substituted as you have seen II. And as the Apostolick name so the same work also as Teaching Ordering Ordaining c. is by the Apostles committed to their Successors for this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting and ordain Elders in every city as I had appointed thee saith the Apostle here to Titus his Successor The same work being in all others in like place and trust in the Church for ever III. And for carrying on that great work and name had these the Apostles Succssors the Apostles place and degree also in the Church in being above others and to be accordingly respected and esteemed Among us saith S. Hierome Bishops have the place of the Apostles which his Expression Among us sheweth how Bishops were esteemed among Oxthodox Christians other than was among Hereticks such as Montanus and his followers against whom he there writes blaming them for so depressing and vilifying that sacred and high Order as they did And what is among us chief and first speaking of Bishops that is saith he last with them with Montanus and his Faction with them Bishops are in the third and last place So S. Hierome on whom I fix rather then on many other to that purpose he being understood by the contrary side not to have been of the best friends to Bishops yet in this is the priviledge and preheminence of Bishops by him acknowledged asserted and even you see contended for Thus was it in S. Hieromes time 400 years after Christ it having been so continued to his days from the times of the Apostles so also after S. Hieromes time through all ages of the Church until that Schism raised about 126 years since in Geneva An. 1541 a year to us in the next Century 1641. on the same account fata● whereby we find this Sacred Hierarchy trampled on by inferio● Elders by whom although the name of Bishop would be forgotten yet is the place power and work of Bishops by them notwithstanding ambitiously sought after sacrilegiously usurped to themselves alone appropriated affirming all spoken of Bishops to be intended onely of Elders and making Elders and Bishops the same without difference of degree or preheminence in any kind Some Community there is indeed between Bishops and Elders yet so as that even in that there appears sufficient to preserve to Bishops their Being Work and Dignity distinct and above those who would themselves have all without sharing Let this be considered distinctly in that community which is by these Elders challenged with Bishops both in Name and Work by which they conclude Bishop and Elders the same and themselves all As to the names of Bishops and Elders promiscuously used for that are these places of Scripture among others by them insultingly insisted on particularly Acts 20. 28. where the Elders of the Church of Ephesus v. 17. are v. 28 called Overseers or Bishops so in the Greek Also Phil. 1. 1. the Apostle saluteth the Saints at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons See say they Bishops plurally many of them in the same City therefore intended of Elders not Bishops and that there also Bishops and Deacons onely are named not Elders Elders notwithstanding being intended therefore concluding that in that of Bishops Elders are understood and not Bishops And even this Text also Tit. 1. 5 7. is by them urged to that purpose where are Elders in every City v. 5. and those Elders v. 5. called Bishops v. 7. 1. Therefore say they to be meant of Elders properly and not of Bishops on all concluding that Elders and Bishops so promiscuonsly vsed are therefore the same and not distinguished and therefore no
place of Presbyters But this Text also Pit 1. 5. 7. is pressed in favour of Elders against Bishops for Elders so named v. 5. are v. 7. termed Bishops adding that there being Elders in every City therefore is that intended of Elders properly and not of Bishops who are not for every City thus they 1. It is true that in every City are to be Elders wheresoever is a meeting of people to be provided for so are Elders properly to be understood and the word City to be in that case strictly taken 2. But as referring to Bishops Seats the word City is to be understood more enlargedly not for every city but such onely as are fit for it as places of note and such as are extended in jurisdiction We use to say traditionally that a Bishops Seat should be a city i. e. a place of note so doth Leo expound this very Text writing to the Bishops of Africa To appoint Bishops in every City or Town is saith he in the greater citres to place Bishops in the less to place Priests He in that speaking according to the Council of Sardis It is not allowed saith that Council that a Bishop be appointed in every village or smaller city where one Presbyter may suffice for there a Bishop needs not be that the name and authority of a Bishop be not vilified Con. Eard c. 6. In every city therefore are to be Elders and in every city fitting for it a●e be to Bishops So hath this been understood in the practice of the Church accordingly And well might Crete be capable of many Bishops being an Island of great extent and populous And Titus his enlarged Jurisdiction there over many Bishops ordaining and appointing them where necessary sheweth his power to have been Archiepiscopal a though he be stiled onely Bishop of Crete as Timothy Bishop of Ephesus so in the poscript to those Epistles and usual it is in the Councils and elsewhere to finde Archbishops and Patriarchs under the name of Bishops And that Cre●e had its Archbishop and Suffragans we also find The Archbishop of Crete was nominated from Gortyna its Metropolis Dionysius of Corinih who lived in the next age to the Apostles writing to the Church of Gortyna together with the rest of the Churches of Crete commendeth Philip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Bishop for his singular piety and virtues The City of Gnossus in Crete had Pintus its Bishop And saith Theodorus Balsamo I have perused the ancient code of Councils and defind by the subscriptions that Basiil Bishop of Gortyna was present at the Council of Tru●lo On the whole therefore from the community of the names between Bishops and Elders is no ground for what is thence inferred That therefore Bishops and Elders are the same without dictinction of Persons Offices or Degrees for Bishops are Elders and some Elders are Bishops and both distinct in Degree and Dignity But the the strength of the Objection is it what concerns the work common to Bishops and Elders For if the same work be common to both so as what a Bishop doth that an Elder doth also then what needs a distinction of Persons and and Offices These are not to be multiplied without necessity And that the work is common and the same both to Bishops and Elders is by that side instanced in 1. Ordination 2. In Overseeing under this of Overseeing all the other pa●ts of the work are comprehended as Preaching Baptizing c. Let these two be therefore distinctly considered and examined Whether in the work common to both Bishops and E●ders there be not sufficient to differente each from other 1. As to Ordination To this Elders or Presbyters pretend grounding on that 1 Tim. 4. 14. where the Apostle exhorts Timothy Not to neglect the gift which was given him by prophesie with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie Here say they Presbyters Ordain 1. But ●et them take all together for doth not the same Apostle say also to Timothy I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands 2 Tim. 1. 6. here we finde another hand the Apostles beside those hands of Presbyters imposed on Timothy therefore not the hands of Presbyters alone where therefore their hand onely is in the work there is another yet wanting and the work short without it the case of necessity excepted 2. Ordination must be granted to have been in the Apostles primarily and principally and not in Elders or Presbyters principally they but acting with the Apostles and that but subordinately By my hand saith the Apostle 2 Tim. 1. 6. with the hands of the Presbytery 1 Tim. 4. 14. It is by the Apostles hand principally and but with the other in way of approbation Therefore is the charge of Oedination given principally to Timothy that he lay not hands suddenly on any so not to be partaker of other mens sins there Presbyters are not named not as not assisting but as onely assisting and not as principals It is be not thou partaker of other mens sins not be not ye speaking of Presbyters So you finde it here also as to Titus to him is that work committed principally and in chief I left thee Titus in Crete that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and that thou shouldest orvain Elders in every City as I have appointed thee So is it to be understood as to others in like place with Timothy and Titus Bishops ordain others joyning with them Bishops will not do it without others and others must not do it without Bishops concur Elders may but act in it alone they must not the contrary where necessity is not is an unwarranted usurpation Yet in giving but an hand in the work they will have All. Such notwithstanding are to know that there is another hand in that work as beside theirs so before theirs and above them theirs is onely with not without Bishops and Bishops in that principally So for Ordination in which work common both to Bishops and Elders is you see sufficient notwithstanding to difference both in Degree and Office II. See it also in the other part of the work in which Bishops and Elders act also in common as Preaching Baptizing and ordering the flock committed to them so are both Overseers This is granted in common to both Bishops and Elders yet so as that this is in both differently and so in Bishops as not in others 1. It is true that Preaching Baptizing Ordering and Overseeing the flock are incumbent on all but in inferior Elders more restrainly with respect to place and persons they acting within Precincts and Parishes among their own people and within their own districts onely To these and there are they Overseers and not otherwise so as for any such to take on him to Oversee and see what others without do or do not is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
each in their place order and degree And as in that is beautie so also securitie securitie is implied where it is said to be terrible that is to enemies to errors and heresies enemies to truth and to schisme and faction which are contrary to order and vnitie These dare not appear while the Church is under its government and in order each under his banners in their order and place being thereby ready to oppose what shall be contrary It is otherwise where order is not in the Church but our banners cast down and our chief leaders taken off what can be then 〈◊〉 deformitie for beautie and for order 〈◊〉 on what then but terror terror to our selves so is an army in confusion to it self terrible and thereby have enemies their advantages about and within therefore saith S. Ierome the safety of the Church dependeth on the dignity of the chief Priest meaning the Bishop to whom if power be not given there must be as many schismes in the Church ●s there are Priests So S. Cyprian Heresies or Schismes have no other beginning but this that Gods Priest meaning Bishop is not obeyed Again These be the beginnings of heretiques these the risings and endeavours of ill minded Schismaticks that they please themselves and contemn their Bishops with swelling pride So do men depart from the Church c. And hence do men rush into heresies and schismes when they speak evil of Priests and envy their Bishops All which we have found sadly in our late miserable Church distractions 2. And by those evils in the Church did follow on our state also confusion and destruction If the Church be borne down let not the State think to stand And we have seen evils designed to the State carried on by attempting first on the Church Corahs opposition pretended principally against Aron rests not there for others with Corah had their designes in that against Moses also and in that against Aron came in Moses immediately they gathered themselves against Moses and Aron And say they to Moses even in a breach wilt thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Therefore are both joyned by the Apostle S. Jude with the gainsaying of Core is a speaking evill also of dignities In both have we seen and felt the dismall effects of this Church Schisme But blessed be God by whom these breaches are now all made up and repaired both in Church and State by the happy Restauration of his Sacred Majesty to his Royall throne and government 1. hereby is Settlement to the Kingdoms Our Judges being restored as at the first and our Councellors as at the beginning 2. And thereby is our Church also setled so as at this day even this very day we have and our eyes do behold among us here such in the Church who sit and rule in chief setting in order the things that are wanting and ordaining Elders Bishops Successively as hath been Apostolically appointed In that see we our Church Settlement In Church order and Government is Church Settlement which was that in the words first propounded with which I have now done As to what remains of the Text the qualifications of those persons to be called forth to this high and Sacred calling and work of which you have much here v. 6. 7 8 9. of that I may not now speak time will not admit it nor needs it at present where in the person now before us and to be admitted into this Sacred function these qualification are already nor were it for me for me I say to shew it so I shall therefore conclude with the Apostles Clerum Acts 20. wherein we have to our purpose both exhortation and valediction First exhortation you have heard your place and honour asserted see now your office and work and in that your care and charge Take heed unto your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers or Bishops to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood In that you have your charge see you now to the discharge Next and last follows an Apostolical valediction benediction and prayer which shall be mine also and with that I now conclude And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all which are Sanctified FINIS Errata Epistle P. 3. margin ep p. 2. dele p. 10. line 6. first dele p. 13. line 19. and dele p. 14. line 3. for the read this Preface P. 9. marg z for contra marcione 5. r. contra marcion c. 5. p. 10. l. 2. for Bishops r. being Bishops p. 11. l. 20. for theire r. there p. 12. l. 20. for Policarpus r. Polycarpus l. 22. for Clemets r. Clemens p. 15. marg g for 406. r. 306. ibid. marg r. h Camorar in vita phil molaneth Sermon P. 2. l. 7. for Licaonica r. Lycaonia ibid. marg for Act. 3. 12. r. Tit. 3. 12. p. 7. marg x for Zech. 37. r. Zech. 3. 7. p. 9. marg d for Nunb 16. 3. r. Numb 16. 3. ibid. marg g for Rev 1. 6. 15. 10. r. Rev 1. 6 p 11. l. 28. legal dele p. 12. marg r for Acts. 1. 6. r. Acts. 6. 1. p. 14. marg a for phile 9. r. philem v. 9. p. 15. l. 26. for II. r. I. p. 16. l. 1. sor For r. So l. 2. for Apostles r. Apostle l. 29. for is is r. is p. 17. l. 2. for in r. on p. 21. l. 29 for as r. 〈◊〉 p. 22. marg f for Synod r. 6 Synod p. 23. l. 4. for conveening r. convening p. 25. l. 28. for conc Eard 〈◊〉 conc Sard. l. 30. for be to r. to be p. 26. l. 13. for nominated r. denominated p. 32. l. 18. for ofter r. after a Ric. Hookers Eccles. Pol. Pref. Ep. p. 2● Beza de grad Min. c. 11. b 2 Kin. 16. 10 11. Neh. 13. 14. a Hos. 3. 12. b Acts 12. 2. c Gal. 1. 19. d Acts 12. 17. e Acts 15. 13 c. f 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 h Annot. on Acts 21. 18. i Annot. on Acts 12. ●7 k Hiero. Catal. Scrip. in Sim. l Niceph. l. 14. 〈…〉 Euseb. l. 2. c. 24. Doroth. in Synop. Hie. proëm in Math. in catalog 〈◊〉 Marco ad Evagr. m Cent. 1. l. 2. c. 10. in Joh. Evang. n Beza in 1 Tim. 5. 19 o Euseb. l. 3. c. 4. p Hier. catal sc. q Oecum in 1 Tim. 1. r Oecum in Tit. 1. s Conc. Chalce act 11. t Theod. Balfamo u Euseb. l. 3. c. 22. Ignat. ad Anti ch w Euseb. l. 5. c. 6. l. 3. c. 4. c. 13. c. 22. Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Hie. cata in Clement x Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Euseb. l. 3. c. 35. Hier. in catal sc. y Euseb. l. 3. c. 23. z Tertul. de praescrip c. 32. l. 4. contra Marcione