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

and so, whether it be not jure Divino? yea, by a more eminent Authority than the Scriptures, which were written by parts, by several single Men, some Apostles, and some Evangelists? when this is said to be done by all together. Q. 3. Whether Christ's Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and sending the Apostles thence into all the World, (and not into the Roman Empire only) do not incomparably more evidently make Jerusalem the Universal Metropolis of the Earth, and so set it above Rome, which is but the Metropolis of one Empire? Q. 4. Whether then an Universal Head of the Church or Vicar of Christ be not jure Divino? and so a Jerusalem Papacy be not essential to the true Church and Religion? Q. 5. Whether then all the Emperors, Bishops, and Churches, that did set up Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople above Jerusalem, were not Traitors against the Universal Sovereign of the Church, and guilty of Usurpation and gross Schism? Q. 6. To what purpose this Sovereignty was given to Jerusalem, which was never possessed and exercised? Q. 7. Whether Peter's being at Rome could alter this Church-Constitution? and one Apostle could undo what all together had done? Q. 8. Whether the Apostles carried this Metropolitical Prerogative with them from place to place, where-ever they came? And whether it did belong to the Men or the Place? And whether to the Place whence they first set out, or to every ⟨p. 94⟩place where they came? or to the place where they dyed? Judge what is the proof of any of these. Q. 9. When they were scattered; which of their Seats was the Metropolitan to the rest? or were they all equal? Q. 10. If the Power followed the Civil Power of the Metropolitan Rulers, whether Caesar did not more in constituting the Church-Order, and giving power comparatively to the Metropolitans, than Christ and his Apostles? Q. 11. Whether it was not in Caesar's power to unmake all the Church Metropolitans and Bishops at his pleasure, by dissolving the Privileges and Charters of Cities? Q. 12. If it please any King, or be the Custom of any Kingdom (as it is in many parts of America) that the Kingdom have no Cities or Metropolis, whether it must have any Churches, Bishops, or Metropolitan? Q. 13. Whether when Paul wrote his Letters from Corinth to Rome he thereby made the Bishop of Corinth the Governor of the Bishop and Diocese of Rome?

and so, whether it be not jure Divino? yea, by a more eminent Authority than the Scriptures, which were written by parts, by several single Men, some Apostles, and some Evangelists? when this is said to be done by all together. Q. 3. Whether Christ's Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and sending the Apostles thence into all the World, (and not into the Roman Empire onely) do not incomparably more evidently make Jerusalem the Universal Metropolis of the Earth, and so set it above Rome, which is but the Metropolis of one Empire? Q. 4. Whether then an Universal Head of the Church or Vicar of Christ be not jure Divino? and so a Jerusalem Papacy be not essential to the true Church and Religion? Q. 5. Whether then all the Emperours, Bishops, and Churches, that did set up Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople above Jerusalem, were not Traytors against the Universal Sovereign of the Church, and guilty of Usurpation and gross Schism? Q. 6. To what parpose this Sovereignty was given to Jerusalem, which was never possess'd and exercised? Q. 7. Whether Peter's being at Rome could alter this Church-Constitution? and one Apostle could undo what all together had done? Q. 8. Whether the Apostles carried this Metropolitical Prerogative with them from place to place, where-ever they came? And whether it did belong to the Men or the Place? And whether to the Place whence they first set out, or to every