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…

The affirmative part of this question is proved from Scripture, from antiquity, from Protestant writers, yea Churches and from sound reason, and from the confessions of opposites. To begin with Scripture, and with the primitive pattern, the Apostles themselves would not so much as make Deacons till all the seven were chosen, and presented unto them by the Church, Act, 6. 2, 3, 5, 6: The Author of the History of Episcopacy, part, 2. pag. 359. To cut off our Argument from Acts 6. saith. That the seven were to be the stewards of the people in disposing of their goods, good reason that the election should be made by them, whose goods and fortunes were to be disposed of, this answer was made by Bellarmine before him: But Walaeus tom. 2. pag. 52. reasoneth other ways: the feeders of the peoples souls, must be no less (if not more) beloved and acceptable then the feeders of their bodies; therefore these must be chosen with their own consent, as well as these. Secondly, Elders (both ruling and preaching) were chosen by most voices of the Church: the suffrages being signified, per [Greek or Hebrew], that is, by lifting up, or stretching out of the hand, Act. 14. 23. Where the Syriac version doth insinuate, that the word [Greek or Hebrew], is not to be understood of the Apostles ordination of Elders, but of the Churches Election of Elders, thus, Moreover they made to themselves, that is, the Disciples mentioned in the former verse, made to themselves, for they who were made, were not Elders or Ministers to Paul and Barnabas, (but to the multitude of the Disciples) in every Church Elders while they were fasting with them and praying, and commending them, &c. Now how could this Election be, but after the Grecian form by the Churches lifting up, or stretching out of hands. But because some do still stick at this place, it may be further cleared, thus ⟨p. 10⟩[Greek or Hebrew]; It may be understood three ways, and all these ways it saveth the peoples right. It may be either the action of the Church only, as the Syriac maketh it, or a joint action both of the Churches, and of Paul and Barnabas, as Junius maketh it; or an action of Paul and Barnabas, in this sense that they did constitute Elders to the Churches, by the Churches own voices.

The affirmative part of this question is proved from Scripture, from antiquity, from Protestant writters, yea Churches and from sound reason, and from the confessions of opposites. To begin with Scripture, and with the primitive paterne, the Apostles themselves would not so much as make Deacons till all the seven were chosen, and presented unto them by the Church, Ast, 6. 2, 3, 5, 6: The Author of the Historie of Episcopacy, part, 2. pag. 359. To cut off our Argument from