Five disputations of church-government and worship

I prove the Minor (for the Major needeth none:) according to their own interpretation of Tit. 1.5. and other Texts; Every City should have a Bishop, (and if it may be, a Presbytery) (And so many Councils have determined, only when they grew greater, they except Cities that were too small: but so did not Paul) But the late Episcopacy of England is contrary to this: for one Bishop only is over many Cities. If therefore they will needs have Episcopacy, they should at least have had a Bishop in every City: and though we do not approve of confining them to Cities, yet this would be much better then as they were: for then 1. They would be nearer their charges, and within reach of them. 2. And they would have smaller charges, which they might be more capable of overseeing; for there would be ten or twenty Bishops •or one that be now. If they say that except Bath and Wells Coventry and Lichfield, or some few, they have but one City. I answer, its not so. For every Corporation or Borough-Town is truly [Greek or Hebrew]; and therefore should have a Bishop Let them therefore either prove that a Market-Town, a Borough, a Corporation, is not [Greek or Hebrew], or else let every one of these Towns and Burroughs have a Bishop, to govern that Town with the Neighbouring Villages by the consent and help of the Presbyters of these Villages, (according to their own grounds.) And if it were so, they would be no more then Classical Bishops at most.

I prove the Minor (for the Major needeth none:) according to their own interpretation of Tit. 1.5. and other Texts; Every City should have a Bishop, (and if it may be, a Presbytery) (And so many Councils have determined, only when they grew greater, they except Cities that were too small: but so did not Paul) But the late Episcopacy of England is contrary to this: for one Bishop only is over many Cities. If therefore they will needs have Episcopacy, they should at least have had a Bishop in every City: and though we do not approve of confining them to Cities, yet this would be much better then as they were: for then 1. They would be nearer their charges, and within reach of them. 2. And they would have smaller charges, which they might be more capable of overseeing; for there would be ten or twenty Bishops •or one that be now. If they say that except Bath and Wells Coventry and Lic•fild, or some few, they have but one City. I answer, its not so. For every Corporation or Burrough-Town is truly ; and therefore should have a Bishop Let them therefore either prove that a Market-Town, a Burrough, a Corporation, is not , or else let every one of these Towns and Burroughs have a Bishop, to govern that Town with the Neighbouring Villages by the consent and help of the Presbyters of these Vilages, (according to their own grounds.) And if it were so, they would be no more then Classical Bishops at most.