Five disputations of church-government and worship

And as Mr. Thornd•ke out of N•nius tells us of 365. Bishoprics in Ireland planted by Patrick, so other Authors tell ⟨p. 97⟩us that Patrick was the first Bishop there; or as others and more credible, Palladius the first, and Patrick next: and yet the Scots in Ireland had Churches before Palladius his days, (as Bishop Usher showeth de Primordiis Eccles. Britain. 798, 799, 800, &c.) Johannes Major de gestis scholarum li. 2. cap. 2. prioribus illis temporibus per Sacerdotes & Monachos, sine Episcopis Scotos in fide eruditos fuisse affirmat. Et ita sane ante Majorem scripsit Johannes Fordonus Scotichron. li. 3. cap. 8. [Ante Palladii adventum habebant Scoti fidei Doctores ac Sacramentorum Ministratores Presbyteros solummodo vel Monaches, ritum sequentes Ecclesiae Primitivae (N. B.) Of which saith Usher [Quod postremum ab iis accepisse videtur qui dixerunt (ut Johan. Semeca in Glossa Decreti dist. 93. ca. Legimus) [quod in Prima Primitiva Ecclesia commune erat officium Episcoporum & Sacerdotum: & Nomina erant communia, & officium commune; sed in secunda primitiva caeperunt dinstigui & nomina & officia.] So that it seems that some Churches they had before; but Palladius and Patrick came into Ireland, as Augustine into England, and abundantly increased them, and settled withal the Roman Mode▪ So that it seemed like a new Plantation of Religion and Churches there. Yet it seems that the Bishops settled by Patrick (save that himself an Archbishop was like our Bishops) were but such as were there before under the name of Presbyters, saith Fordone, after the rite or fashion of the Primitive Church.

And as Mr. Thornd•ke out of N•nius tells us of 365. Bishopricks in Ireland planted by Patrick, so other Authors tell ⟨p. 97⟩us that Patrick was the first Bishop there; or as others and more credible, Palladius the first, and Patrick next: and yet the Scots in Ireland had Churches before Palladius his dayes, (as Bishop Vsher sheweth de Primordiis Eccles. Britan. 798, 799, 800, &c.) Iohannes Major de gestis scholarum li. 2. cap. 2. prioribus illis temporibus per Sacerdotes & Monachos, sine Episcopis Scotos in fide eruditos fuisse affirmat. Et ita sane ante Majorem scripsit Johannes Fordonus Scotichron. li. 3. cap. 8. [Ante Palladii adventum habebant Scoti fidei Doctores ac Sacramentorum Ministratores Presbyteros solummodo vel Monaches, ritum sequentes Ecclesiae Primitivae (N. B.) Of which saith Usher [Quod postremum ab iis accepisse videtur qui dixerunt (ut Johan. Semeca in Glossa Decreti dist. 93. ca. Legimus) [quod in Prima Primitiva Ecclesia commune erat officium Episcoporum & Sacerdotum: & Nomina erant communia, & officium commune; sed in secunda primitiva caeperunt dinstigui & nomina & officia.] So that it seems that some Churches they had before; but Palladius and Patrick came into Ireland, as Augustine into England, and abundantly increased them, and settled withall the Roman Mode So that it seemed like a new Plantation of Religion and Churches there. Yet it seems that the Bishops setled by Patrick (save that himself an Archbishop was like our Bishops) were but such as were there before under the name of Presbyters, saith Fordon, after the rite or fashion of the Primitive Church.