A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Wherefore I can see no sense which can agree to the Text, but that which is the ordinary and known sense of the word; [Greek or Hebrew], that is an Assembly of Elders. In which sense it is also frequently used by ancient writers, whereof, he that will, may read good store of examples in D. Blondelli Apologia pro sententia Hieronymi. pag: 89 90.

Wherefore I can see no sense which can agree to the Text, but that which is the ordinary and known sense of the word; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is an Assembly of Elders. In which sense it is also frequently used by ancient writers, whereof, he that will, may read good store of examples in D. Blondelli Apollogia pro sententia Hieronymi. pag: 89 90.

It hath been objected by some, that 1 Tim: 4. 14. holds ⟨p. 101⟩forth no president for ordinary Presbyteries, because 1. Here is mention of prophecy which was an extraordinary thing, 2. Timothy, was ordained by the laying on of the Apostle Paul his hands, 2. Tim: 1. 6. Lastly Timothy was an Evangelist, and how could a Presbyter ordain an Evangelist?

It hath been objected by some, that 1 Tim: 4. 14. holds ⟨p. 101⟩forth no president for ordinary Presbyteries, because 1. Here is mention of prophesie which was an extraordinary thing, 2. Timothy, was ordained by the laying on of the Apostle Paul his hands, 2. Tim: 1. 6. Lastly Timothy was an Evangelist, and how could a Presbyter ordain an Evangelist?

Answ: 1. Those very things which are objected, to depress the Presbytery, do put upon it so much the more abundant honour. Although prophesies had gone before concerning Timothy, and some extraordinar predictions, 1 Tim: 1. 18. Although likewise the Apostle Paul himself is supposed to have been present, and to have laid on hands at the same time, yet neither the extraordinary prophesies, nor the laying on of the hands of an Apostle, did swallow up, take away or hinder the ordinary power and right of the Presbytery, to be acted and put forth in the ordaining of Timothy, or did exempt Timothy from entering by that ordinary door, and passage, through those ordinary hands of the Presbytery.