A33359:261
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and ancient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and antient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Diocesan Churches not yet discovered in the Primitive times.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
However something he would say against M. B. if one, could understand it. It is about the word [Greek or Hebrew] in Cornelius's Epistle rendered the poor. Valesius observes the word is used by the Roman Clergy in an Epistle to those at Carthage, sive Viduae sive Thlibomeni, i. e. indigents, saith he, as Rufinus translates it, and tells us also that Cyprian lcalls them pauperes & indigentes qui laborant. These, says our Author, were not only poor, but sick and diseased, alleging that of the Roman Clergy for it after Valesius, and if he mean not only the poor, but the sick also and the diseased he is right, for Cornelius signifies those that were maintained by the Church, Widows and Indigent whether sick or well. But when he says these poor were such only as were not able to come abroad, he seems to confine it to the sick and diseased, and then it contradicts the former, and is without reason, against the use and import of the word, as rendered by all Interpreters former and later that I meet with, and indeed against common sense; for the number Cornelius speaks of is fixed, as that of the Presbyters and Deacons, ⟨p. 82⟩such as may be constantly known and a certain account given of it, whereas the number of the sick is not fixed, but such a contingency as is very uncertain and various.
However something he would say against M. B. if one, could understand it. It is about the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in Cornelius's Epistle render'd the poor. Valesius observes the word is used by the Roman Clergy in an Epistle to those at Carthage, sive Viduae sive Thlibomeni, i. e. indigentes, saith he, as Rufinus translates it, and tells us also that Cyprian lcalls them pauperes & indigentes qui laborant. These, sayes our Author, were not only poor, but sick and diseased, alledging that of the Roman Clergy for it after Valesius, and if he mean not only the poor, but the sick also and the diseased he is right, for Cornelius signifies those that were maintained by the Church, Widows and Indigent whether sick or well. But when he sayes these poor were such only as were not able to come abroad, he seems to confine it to the sick and diseased, and then it contradicts the former, and is without reason, against the use and import of the word, as render'd by all Interpreters former and later that I meet with, and indeed against common sense; for the number Cornelius speaks of is fixed, as that of the Presbyters and Deacons,