Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 27. When the great Gregory Thaumaturgus was made Bishop of Neocaesarea, he had but seventeen Christians in his City; and when he had increased them by extraordinary successes, yet we find not that he had so much as a Presbyter under him. And if he had, its not likely that Musonius, his first and chief entertainer, would have been made but his Deacon, and be the only ⟨p. 187⟩man to accompany him and comfort him in his retirement in the persecution, and that no Presbyter should be mentioned: which shows that Bishops then were such as they were in Scripture-times (at least in most places) and had not many Churches with their Presbyters subject to them, as Diocesan Bishops have. And when Comana, a small place not far off him, received the faith, Gregory Ordained Alexander the Collier) their Bishop, over another single Congregation, and did not keep them under his own Pastoral charge and Government: Vid. Greg. Nisan in vita Thaumat.)

Sect. 27. When the great Gregory Thaumaturgus was made Bishop of Neocaesarea, he had but seventeen Christians in his City; and when he had increased them by extraordinary successes, yet we find not that he had so much as a Presbyter under him. And if he had, its not likely that Musonius, his first and chief entertainer, would have been made but his Deacon, and be the only ⟨p. 187⟩man to accompany him and comfort him in his retirement in the persecution, and that no Presbyter should be mentioned: which shews that Bishops then were such as they were in Scripture-times (at least in most places) and had not many Churches with their Presbyters subject to them, as D•oc•san Bishops have. And when Comana, a small place not far off him, received the faith, Gregory Ordained Alexander the Colliar) their Bishop, over another single Congreg•tion, and did not keep them under his own Pastoral charge and Government: Vid. Greg. Nys•n in vita Thaumat.)