Five disputations of church-government and worship

Prop. 9. No one Apostle did appropriate a Diocese to himself, and say, Here I am sole Governor, or am chief Governor; nor did they or could they forbid any others to Govern in their Diocese: though, as is said, they did agree to distribute their work to the public advantage, and not to be all in one place at once: but yet successively they might.

Prop. 9. No one Apostle did appropriate a Diocess to himself, and say, Here I am sole Governor, or am chief Governor; nor did they or could they forbid any others to Govern in their Diocess: though, as is said, they did agree to distribute their work to the publike advantage, and not to be all in one place at once: but yet successively they might.

Prop. 10. Nay its certain that they were so far from being the sole Bishops of such or such a Diocese, that they had usually some more unfixed general Officers with them. Paul and Barnabas went together at first: and after the Division, Barnabas and Mark, Paul and Silas, and sometimes Timothy, and sometime Epaphroditus, and sometime others went together afterward. And others as well as James were usually at Jerusalem: and all these had a general power where they came. And it cannot be proved that James was Ruler of Peter, Paul and the rest when they were at Jerusalem, nor that he had any higher power then they.

Prop. 10. Nay its certain that they were so far from being the sole Bishops of such or such a Diocess, that they had usually some more unfixed general Officers with them. Paul and Barnabas went together at first: and after the Division, Barnabas and Mark, Paul and Silas, and sometimes Timothy, and sometime Epaphroditus, and sometime others went together afterward. And others as well as Iames were usually at Ierusalem: and all these had a general power where they came. And it cannot be proved that Iames was Ruler of Peter, Paul and the rest when they were at Ierusalem, nor that he had any higher power then they.