A33359:74
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.
As for the words of Valesius cited by him, if they be taken in the sense which our Author would have them, that learned man will not agree with himself. For but a very few lines before, he says, these two were Co-Episcopi, Bishops together in that City, superstite episcopo, adjutor & coepiscopus est adjunctus, And tho' he says (but says it doubtfully with a ni fallor) this was forbidden at Sardica (above 100 years after); yet he adds that, notwithstanding it was still usual in the Church, nihil ominus identidem in ecclesia usurpatum est, which is all, that I need desire. And afterwards, where Eusebius 1again mentions two Bishops in one City, he observes, that in one of his Copies, the Scholiast h•s this note upon it in the Margin, [Greek or Hebrew], here also there were two Bishops of one Church. Valesius adds, the Scholiast understands Alexander, who was Bishop of Jerusalem together with Narcissus.
As for the words of Valesius cited by him, if they be taken in the sense which our Author would have them, that learned man will not agree with himself. For but a very few lines before, he says, these two were Co-Episcopi, Bishops together in that City, superstite episcopo, adjutor & coepiscopus est adjunctus, And tho' he says (but says it doubtfully with a ni fallor) this was forbidden at Sardica (above 100 years after); yet he adds that, notwithstanding it was still usual in the Church, nihil ominus identidem in ecclesia usurpatum est, which is all, that I need desire. And afterwards, where Eusebius 1again mentions two Bishops in one City, he observes, that in one of his Copies, the Scholiast h•s this note upon it in the Margin, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, here also there were two Bishops of one Church. Valesius adds, the Scholiast understands Alexander, who was Bishop of Jerusalem together with Narcissus.
- 1in l. 7. c. 32.