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

Cap. 7. Whether Clemens well cited Isai. 60. 17. we need not debate. But if yet any think that the Dr. hath not fully granted us our Cause, let him take these additions: §. 7. He well gathereth from Clemens that this form of Government, founded in Bishops and Deacons (in each Church) being settled by Men entrusted by Christ, is no less to be ascribed to Gods Command than if Christ himself had constituted Bishops and Deacons in every City. (Let who dare then approve of the alteration by the Introduction of another Order of Priests.) And §. 8. He noteth also out of Clemens that the foresight of the contention that would be about Episcopacy caused this establishment of Bishops and Deacons: No doubt God foreknew both that the popular sort would oppose Government, and that the Monarchical Prelates would depose all the Bishops of the same Church save themselves, and the Arch-Prelates would depose all the Bishops of particular Churches, and set up half Priests in their stead. And he doth well not to pass the following words in Clemens (though hard, yet plainly subverting the Doctors opinion) that from this same foresight the Apostles constituted the foresaid Bishops and Deacons (in every Church) [Greek or Hebrew], &c. ac descriptas deinceps ministrorum officiorumque vices reliquerunt, ut in defunctorum locum alii viri probati succedere, & illorum munia exequi possent, (as Pat. Junius translateth it.) The word [[Greek or Hebrew]] can allow no such doubt as shall make this much of the sense to be questionable, 1. That upon the foresight of the Contentions about Episcopacy the Apostles made (by the Spirit) an established Description of the Orders and Offices which should be in the Church, not only in their times, but afterwards. 2. And that the approved men that should hereafter be ordained, should succeed in those same Orders which the Apostles had established and described, even to the same Work or Office, ([Greek or Hebrew]) 3. That the Apostles thus settled or described no mongrel or half Priests, but only Bishops and Deacons, nor any Churches that had not each a Bishop and Deacon. 4. Therefore no such half Priests should be brought in, but only such as the Apostles instituted or described.

Cap. 7. Whether Clemens well cited Isai. 60. 17. we need not debate. But if yet any think that the Dr. hath not fully granted us our Cause, let him take these additions: §. 7. He well gathereth from Clemens that this form of Government, founded in Bishops and Deacons (in each Church) being setled by Men entrusted by Christ, is no less to be ascribed to Gods Command than if Christ himself had constituted Bishops and Deacons in every City. (Let who dare then approve of the alteration by the Introduction of another Order of Priests.) And §. 8. He noteth also out of Clemens that the foresight of the contention that would be about Episcopacy caused this establishment of Bishops and Deacons: No doubt God foreknew both that the popular sort would oppose Government, and that the Monarchical Prelates would depose all the Bishops of the same Church save themselves, and the Arch-Prelates would depose all the Bishops of particular Churches, and set up half Priests in their stead. And he doth well not to pass the following words in Clemens (though hard, yet plainly subverting the Doctors opinion) that from this same foresight the Apostles constituted the foresaid Bishops and Deacons (in every Church) , &c. ac descriptas deinceps ministrorum officiorumque vices reliquerunt, ut in defunctorum locum alii viri probati succedere, & illorum munia exequi possent, (as Pat. Junius translateth it.) The word [] can allow no such doubt as shall make this much of the sense to be questionable, 1. That upon the foresight of the Contentions about Episcopacy the Apostles made (by the Spirit) an established Description of the Orders and Offices which should be in the Church, not only in their times, but afterwards. 2. And that the approved men that should hereafter be ordained, should succeed in those same Orders which the Apostles had established and described, even to the same Work or Office, () 3. That the Apostles thus setled or described no mungrel or half Priests, but only Bishops and Deacons, nor any Churches that had not each a Bishop and Deacon. 4. Therefore no such half Priests should be brought in, but only such as the Apostles instituted or described.