Five disputations of church-government and worship

And Can. 32. runs thus [Si quis Presbyter contemnens Episcopum suum, seorsim collegerit, & Altar aliud erexerit, nihil habens quo rebrehendat Episcopum in causa pietatis & justitiae, deponatur quasi principatus amator existens— Haec autem post unam & secundam & tertiam Episcopi obsecrationem fieri conveniat.] Which shows that there was then but one Convention and one Altar to which one Bishop and Presbyters did belong: So that no other Assembly or Altar was to be set up apart from the Bishop by any Presbyter that had nothing against the Bishop in point of Godliness or Justice.

And Can. 32. runs thus [Si quis Presbyter contemnens Episcopum suum, seorsim collegerit, & Altare aliud erexerit, nihil habens quo rebrehendat Episcopum in causa pietatis & justitiae, deponatur quasi principatus amator existens— Haec autem post unam & secundam & tertiam Episcopi obsecrationem fieri conveniat.] Which shews that there was then but one Convention and one Altar to which one Bishop and Presbyters did belong: So that no other Assembly or Altar was to be set up apart from the Bishop by any Presbyter that had nothing against the Bishop in point of Godliness or Justice.

And I believe if Bishops had a whole Diocese of two hundred or three hundred or a thousand Presbyters to maintain, they would be loth to stand to the fifty eighth Canon which makes them Murderers if they supply not their Clergies wants: But let that Canon pass as spurious.

And I believe if Bishops had a whole Diocesse of two hundred or three hundred or a thousand Presbyters to maintain, they would be loth to stand to the fifty eighth Canon which makes them Murderers if they supply not their Clergies wants: But let that Canon pass as spurious.

And long after when Concilium Vasense doth grant leave to the Presbyters to preach, and Deacons to read Homilies in Country