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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
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.
It is here also further to be noted, that as in the state of the civill government, the jurisdiction of the annual Presidents (by Aristides styled hBishops) was extended unto all the cities that were contained within the limits of their several provinces; and when but one Metropolis was appointed unto every province, wherein the Governor was to keep his ordinary residence, the Provincial Presidents had from thence the appellation of [Greek or Hebrew] (or Metropolitan Judges, as, at the end of the first Novel of Justinian, the *old Latin Interpreter rendereth it:) so, in the Eastern empire especially, the Ecclesiastical regiment was herein conformed unto the civill; there being but one Metropolitan Bishop settled in every Province, unto whom the Bishops of all the rest of the cities were subordinated. By which means it came to pass. that of the seven Churches in Asia, spoken of in the book of the Revelation, Ephesus alone in the days of Constantine had the Metropolitical dignity left unto it. Then after the days of Valens the Emperor, the inland Lydia being separated from Asia, the Bishop of Sardis (which had been the iancient seat of the Lydian Kings) became the Metropolitan of that province: the sees of Philadelphia and *Thyatira being made subject to him; as Smyrna and Pergamus were to the Bishop of Ephesus.
It is here also further to be noted, that as in the state of the civill government, the jurisdiction of the annuall Presidents (by Aristides styled hBishops) was extended unto all the cities that were contained within the limits of their severall provinces; and when but one Metropolis was appointed unto every province, wherein the Governour was to keep his ordinary residence, the Provinciall Presidents had from thence the appellation of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (or M•tropolitan Judges, as, at the end of the first Novell of Justinian, the