Five disputations of church-government and worship

Another passage there is in Ignatius to the same purpose Epist. ad Magnes. [[Greek or Hebrew],] i. e. Omnes adunati ad Templum Dei concurrite, sicut ad unum Altare▪ sicut ad unum Jesum Christum, as the vulgar translation. Or as Vairl•nius, [Omnes velut unus quispiam in templum Dei concurri••, velut ⟨p. 91⟩ad utum Alnare; ad unum Jesum Christum] So the old Latin in Usher to the same purpose. And in the words before going he bids them [Come all to one place for prayer] Here is no room for Bishop Downams conceit, that its Christ that's meant by [Greek or Hebrew]: For they are plainly put as distinct things: as if he should say, come all to one Altar, as to one Christ. i. e because it is but one Christ that is there to be partook of. All this doth so evidently prove that in those days a Bishop with his Presbytery and Deacons, had but one Congregation meeting at one Altar for Church Communion in the Eucharist, that it caused Mr. Mead (in his Discourse of Churches pag. 48, 49, 50. Cent. 2.) to say as followeth, having cited these words of Ignatius [Lo here a Temple with an Altar in it, whether the Magnesians are exhorted to gather themselves together to pray: To come together in one place, &c. For it is to be observed that in these Primitive times they had but one Altar in a Church, as a Symbol, both that they worshipped but one God through one Mediator Jesus Christ, and also of the Unity the Church ought to have in it self. Whence Ignatius not only here, but also in his Epistle to the Philadelphians urgeth the unity of the Altar for a motive to the Congregation to agree together in one: For unum Altar (saith he) omni Ecclesiae, & unus Episcopus cum Presbyterio & Diaconis conservis meis. This custom of one Altar is still retained by the Greek Church: The contrary use is a transgression of the Latins, not only Symbolically implying, but really introducing a [Greek or Hebrew], — &c.

Another passage there is in Ignatius to the same purpose Epist. ad Magnes. [〈non-Latin alphabet〉,] i. e. Omnes adunati ad Templum Dei concurrite, sicut ad unum Altare▪ sicut ad unum Iesum Christum, as the vulgar translation. Or as Vairl•nius, [Omnes velut unus quispiam in templum Dei concurri, velut