An assertion of the government of the Church of Scotland in the points of…

Now touching the third proposition, no man who understandeth, will imagine that the multitude of Christians within one of those great Cities was divided into as many parishes as there were meeting places for worship. It is a point of controversy, who did begin the division of parishes; but whosoever it was, whether Evaristus, or Higinus, or Dionysius, certain it is, that it was not so from the beginning, I mean in the days of the Apostles, for then it was all one to say, in every City, or to say, in every Church. That which is [Greek or Hebrew], Tit. 1.5. is [Greek or Hebrew] Acts 14.22. This is acknowledged by all Anti-prelatical writers so far as I know, and by the Prelatical writers also.

Now touching the third proposition, no man who understandeth, will imagine that the multitude of Christians within one of those great Cities was divided into as many parishes as there were meeting places for worship. It is a point of controversie, who did beginne the division of parishes; but whosoever it was, whether Evaristus, or Higinus, or Dionysius, certaine it is, that it was not so from the beginning, I meane in the daies of the Apostles, for then it was all one to say, in every City, or to say, in every Church. That which is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Tit. 1.5. is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Acts 14.22. This is acknowledged by all Anti-prelaticall writers so farre as I know, and by the Prelaticall writers also.

The last proposition, as it hath not been denied by any, so it is sufficiently proved by the former, for that which made the multitude of Christians within one City to be one Church, was their union under and their ⟨p. 145⟩