Five disputations of church-government and worship

And long after when Concilium Vasense doth grant leave to the Presbyters to preach, and Deacons to read Homilies in Country ⟨p. 100⟩Parishes as well as Cities, it shows that such Parishes were but new and imperfect Assemblies.

And long after when Concilium Vasense doth grant leave to the Presbyters to preach, and Deacons to read Homilies in Country ⟨p. 100⟩Parishes as well as Cities, it shews that such Parishes were but new and imperfect Assemblies.

In the Council of Laodicea the 56. Canon is [Non oportet Presbyteros ante ingressum Episcopi ingredi Ecclesiam, & sedere in tribunalibus, sed cum Episcopo ingredi: nisi forte aut aegrotet Episcopus, aut in peregrinationis commodo eum abyss constiterit.] By which it seems that there was but one Assemby in which the Bishop and Presbyters sate together: Otherwise the Presbyters might have gone into all the rest of the Churches without the Bishop at any time, and not only in case of his sickness or peregrination.

In the Council of Laodicea the 56. Canon is [Non oportet Presbyteros ante ingressum Episcopi ingredi Ecclesiam, & sedere in tribunalibus, sed cum Episcopo ingredi: nisi forte aut aegrotet Episcopus, aut in peregrinationis commodo eum abisse constiterit.] By which it seems that there was but one Assemby in which the Bishop and Presbyters sate together: Otherwise the Presbyters might have gone into all the rest of the Churches without the Bishop at any time, and not only in case of his sickness or peregrination.

The fifth Canon of the Council of Antioch is the same with that of Can. Apost. before cited, that no Presbyter or Deacon contemning his own Bishop, shall withdraw from the Church and gather an Assembly apart, and set up an Altar. By which still it appears that to withdraw from that Assembly, was to withdraw from the Church, and that one Bishop had but one Altar and Assembly for Church Communion.