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…

However, the word relateth to Election by stretching out, or lifting up of hands, not to ordination by laying on of hands, which is the sense followed by the Italian version, and Diodati authorising and ordaining such a one only to be an Elder as was [Greek or Hebrew], which I prove, 1. From the native signification of the word, where Julius Pollux hath [Greek or Hebrew]. Lib. 2. Cap. 4. Gualther and Wolf Seberus render it manuum extensio, and [Greek or Hebrew] manus levare, and [Greek or Hebrew], manibus refragari, Budaeus interpreteth, [Greek or Hebrew] to be plebiscitum, suffragium, H. Stephanus [Greek or Hebrew] manum protendo; & attollo manum porrigo: and because, saith he, in giving votes, they did [Greek or Hebrew], thence came the word to be used, for scisco, decerno, creo, but properly [Greek or Hebrew], is (saith he) as it were, [Greek or Hebrew], id est, [Greek or Hebrew], Justin Martyr, Quaest. & Resp. ad orthod. Resp. ad quaest. 14. doeth expressly distinguish [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]. As words of a most different signification▪ where Cedrenus Anno. 526. saith Euphranius [Greek or Hebrew]. Pilander, the interpreter rendereth, Episcopatui, communibus suffragiis deligitur. Scapula, and Arias Montanus also in his Lexicon tells us, that [Greek or Hebrew] is manus porrigere, or elevare, eligere, or creare magistratum per fuffragia, for [Greek or Hebrew] is most different from laying on of hands, which is not a stretching out or lifting up, but a leaning or laying down of the hands on some thing. Wherefore the Hebrews note laying on of hands by Samak, inniti Chrysostom saith the Roman Senate, did [Greek or Hebrew] which D: Potter himself turneth, did make gods by most voices; Charity mistaken, pag 145. 2. The use of the ⟨p. 11⟩word in this sense, and in no other sense, either in Scripture, 2 Cor. 8. 19. or Greek authors that wrote before the new Testament. So that Luke could not be understood, if he had used it in another sense, but he wrote so that he might be understood: If he had meant ordination, he would have used the word [Greek or Hebrew] as Acts 6. 3. Tit. 1. 5. or [Greek or Hebrew]. as