Five disputations of church-government and worship

Grotius in his Annotat. on 1 Tim. 5.17. saith [Sed notandum ⟨p. 85⟩est in una Urbe magna sicut plures Synagogas, ¹ita & plures fuisse Ecclesias, id est, conventus Christianorum. Et cuique Ecclesiae fuisse suum praesidem, qui populum alloqueretur, & Presbyteros ordinaret. Alexandriae tantum eum fuisse morem, ut unus esset in tota urbe praeses qui ad docendum Presbyteros per urbem distribueret, docet nos Sozomenus 1.14. & Epiphanius, ubi de Ario agit, dicitque Alexandriae nunquam duos fuisse [Greek or Hebrew] voce •a sumpta [Greek or Hebrew], ita ut significat jus illud quod habebat [Greek or Hebrew].] So that Grotius affirmeth that Bishops had not then so much as all the converted persons of a great City under their care, but the Churches and Assemblies were the same, and each Assembly had a Prelate, and in the great Cities there were many of these Churches and Prelates, and that only the City of Alexandria had the custom of having but one such Bishop in the whole City.

Grotius in his Annotat. on 1 Tim. 5.17. saith [Sed notandum ⟨p. 85⟩est in una Vrbe magna sicut plures Synagogas, ¹ita & plures fuisse Ecclesias, id est, conventus Christianorum. Et cuique Ecclesiae fuisse suum praesidem, qui populum alloqueretur, & Presbyteros ordinaret. Alexandriae tantum eum fuisse morem, ut unus esset in tota urbe praeses qui ad docendum Presbyteros per urbem distribueret, docet nos Sozomenus 1.14. & Epiphanius, ubi de Ario agit, dicitque Alexandriae nunquam duos fuisse 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 voce •a sumpta 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ita ut significat jus illud quod habebat 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.] So that Grotius affirmeth that Bishops had not then so much as all the converted persons of a great City under their care, but the Churches and Assemblies were the same, and each Assembly had a Prelate, and in the great Cities there were many of these Churches and Prelates, and that only the City of Alexandria had the custom of having but one such Bishop in the whole City.