Cap. 2. proving no more of any one Apostles fixed Episcopacy, he cometh to their secondary Bishops or Apostles: And whereas we judge, that Apostles, and Evangelists, and the Apostles Assistants were unfixed Ministers, appropriating no Churches or Dioceses to themselves in point of Power, but planting, settling, and confirming Churches in an itinerant way, and distributing their Provinces only arbitrarily and changeably, and as the Spirit guided them at the present time of their work; and that Bishops and Elders were such Pastors as these Church-gatherers fixed in a stated relation to particular Churches; so that an Apostle was a Bishop eminenter, but not formaliter; and that a Bishop, as such, was no Apostle in the eminent sense, but was also an itinerant Preacher limitedly, because while he oversaw his Flock he was also to endeavour the conversion of others, as far as his opportunity allowed him: I say, this being our judgment, this learned Doctor supposeth Apostles, as such, to be Bishops, and the fixed Bishops, as such, to be second Apostles. And I so avoid contending about Names, even where it is of some importance to the Matter, that I will not waste my time upon it till it be necessary. In § 1. he telleth us, that these second Apostles were made partakers of the same Jurisdiction and Name with the first, and either planted and ruled Churches, or ruled such as others had planted. Answ. 1. We doubt not but the Apostles had indefinite itinerant Assistants, and definite fixed Bishops placed by them as aforesaid: But the indefinite and the definite must not be confounded. 2. And were not Luke, Mark, Timothy, and other itinerant Evangelists, as such, of the Clergy, and such Assistants or secondary Apostles? Exclude them, and you can prove none but the fixed Bishops: But if they were, why did you before deny Evangelists, Dissert. 3. cap. 6. the power of the Keys, and make them mere converting Preachers, below Doctors and Pastors, and the same with Deacons? whereas Paul, Ephes. 4. 11. doth place them before Pastors and Teachers. But avoiding the Controversie de nomine, call them what you will, we believe that these itinerant Assistants of the Apostles were of that One sacred Office commonly called the Priesthood or Ministry, though not yet fixed;
Cap. 2. proving no more of any one Apostles fixed Episcopacy, he cometh to their secondary Bishops or Apostles: And whereas we judge, that Apostles, and Evangelists, and the Apostles Assistants were unfixed Ministers, appropriating no Churches or Diocesses to themselves in point of Power, but planting, setling, and confirming Churches in an itinerant way, and distributing their Provinces onely arbitrarily and changeably, and as the Spirit guided them at the present time of their work; and that Bishops and Elders were such Pastors as these Church-gatherers fixed in a stated relation to particular Churches; so that an Apostle was a Bishop eminenter, but not formaliter; and that a Bishop, as such, was no Apostle in the eminent sense, but was also an itinerant Preacher limitedly, because while he oversaw his Flock he was also to endeavour the conversion of others, as far as his opportunity allowed him: I say, this being our judgment, this learned Doctor supposeth Apostles, as such, to be Bishops, and the fixed Bishops, as such, to be second Apostles. And I so avoid contending about Names, even where it is of some importance to the Matter, that I will not waste my time upon it till it be necessary. In § 1. he telleth us, that these second Apostles were made partakers of the same Jurisdiction and Name with the first, and either planted and ruled Churches, or ruled such as others had planted. Answ. 1. We doubt not but the Apostles had indefinite itinerant Assistants, and definite fixed Bishops placed by them as aforesaid: But the indefinite and the definite must not be confounded. 2. And were not Luke, Mark, Timothy, and other itinerant Evangelists, as such, of the Clergy, and such Assistants or secondary Apostles? Exclude them, and you can prove none but the fixed Bishops: But if they were, why did you before deny Evangelists, Dissert. 3. cap. 6. the power of the Keys, and make them meer converting Preachers, below Doctors and Pastors, and the same with Deacons? whereas Paul, Ephes. 4. 11. doth place them before Pastors and Teachers. But avoiding the Controversie de nomine, call them what you will, we believe that these itinerant Assistants of the Apostles were of that One sacred Office commonly called the Priesthood or Ministry, though not yet fixed;
