A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…

And doth it any where intimate that Paul was the Governor of Barnabas, or the sole Bishop of the Churches planted by them both together? Sure the people that would have worshipped Barnabas, as Jupiter, and Paul but as Mercury, did see no Sign of such a Prelacy in Paul. And the Apostles seem so to have ordered the matter, by going by Couples (as Christ sometimes sent two and two before him,) as if they had done it purposely to prevent these Monarchical conceits. Peter and John were together at the healing of the Cripple, and the successful preaching that followed thereupon. Sometime Paul and Barnabas are together; sometime Paul and Silas, and Barnabas and Mark: Paul and Sosthenes are the inscribed Names who send the first Epistle to the Corinthians, and Paul and Timothy the second. And in the Text alleged, it is said, One saith I am of Paul, and another I am of Apollo; and c. 1. 12. Every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas.—And Paul baptized none of them save Crispus and Gaius, and the household of Stephanus. By which it appeareth that Peter was among them as well as Paul; and if Peter had been only the Bishop of ⟨p. 90⟩the Jews here also, Apollos would not have been brought in as a third in a way of equality: And the Controversy would have been otherwise decided by Paul, by telling the Jews that Peter was their sole Bishop, and the Gentiles that Paul was theirs, and all of them, that Apollos was but their Subject. But he goeth quite another way to work, preferring none, nor dividing Dioceses, but levelling Ministers, as being but the helpers of their Faith. And though they had Apostolical preeminence above Apollos, yet Peter and Paul are not said to have a proper Episcopacy over him.

And doth it any where intimate that Paul was the Governour of Barnabas, or the sole Bishop of the Churches planted by them both together? Sure the people that would have worshipped Barnabas, as Jupiter, and Paul but as Mercury, did see no Sign of such a Prelacy in Paul. And the Apostles seem so to have ordered the matter, by going by Couples (as Christ sometimes sent two and two before him,) as if they had done it purposely to prevent these Monarchical conceits. Peter and John were together at the healing of the Criple, and the successful preaching that followed thereupon. Sometime Paul and Barnabas are together; sometime Paul and Silas, and Barnabas and Mark: Paul and Sosthenes are the inscribed Names who send the first Epistle to the Corinthians, and Paul and Timothy the second. And in the Text alledged, it is said, One saith I am of Paul, and another I am of Apollo; and c. 1. 12. Every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas.—And Paul baptized none of them save Crispus and Gaius, and the houshold of Stephanus. By which it appeareth that Peter was among them as well as Paul; and if Peter had been only the Bishop of