Note 1 — A VINDICATION OF THE Presbyteriall-Government, AND MINISTRY:

Ezra 4.15, 24.

[2] Justini Martyris Apologia. Tertul. Apol.

[3] Juell. Apolog.

[4] Psal. 80.12, 13, 14, 15.

[5] Psal. 51.18.

[6] 1 Tim. 3.15.

[7] 2 Tim. 3.16, 17. Psal. 19.7.

[8] 2 Cor. 5.20. Eph. 4.11.

[9] Matth. 18.20.

[10] Iam. 4.12. Isa. 33.22.

[11] Matth. 28.19. 1 Cor. 11.23. &c.

[12] 1 Cor. 5. Ioh. 20.21, 22, 23. Matth. 28.18, 19, 20.

[13] Eph. 4.11. Eph. 1.22. 1 Tim. 3.15.

[14] Heb. 3.2, 3. Ha. 5.1, 7. Cant. 4.16, 6.2. Eph. 2.12.

[15] Eph. 4.12. Matth. 18.15. 1 Cor. 5.5.

[16] Eph. 4.11.

[17] 1 Tim. 5.17. 1 Cor. 12.28. and Rom. 12.6, 7, 8.

[18] Act. 6.5, 6. Phil. 1.1. and 1 Tim. 3.8.

[19] 1 Tim. 3.2. to 13. &c. Act. 6.3.

[20] Act. 6.5, 6. 1 Tim. 3.10. Act. 13.1, 2, 3. and 14.23. 1 Tim. 5.22. and 4.14.

[21] Act. 6.4.

[22] Act. 15.21. Act. 13.15.

[23] Matth. 16.19. 2 Tim. 4.1, 2.

[24] Numb. 6.23. Luk. 24.50. 2 Cor. 13.14.

[25] Matth. 28.19, 20. Mat. 26.26. to 31. 1 Cor. 11.23.

[26] Tit. 3.10. 2 Thess. 3.14, 15. Mat. 18.15. to 21. 1 Cor. 5.3. and 2 Cor. 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

[27] Act. 4.35 and 6.1, 2, 3. Act. 11.29, 30. Rom. 12.8.

[28] 1 Cor. 14.34. Rom. 16.1.

[29] Act. 2.41, 47. Act. 5.4. Act. 6.1. Act. 21.20.

[30] Act. 15.

[31] Deut. 17. to the 12. Mat. 18.15, 16, 17, 18.

[32] 2 Pet. 2.10.

[33] Deut. 17.18, 19. & cap. 31.9. Josh. 1.7, 8.1. 2 King. 11.12.

[34] Isa. 49.23.

[35] Ezr. 7.26, 27. 1 Pet. 2.14. compared with Gal. 5.19, 20. & Phil. 3.2. & 2 ep. Joh. 10. 2 Chron. 15. & 2 Chron. 17.6. 2 Chron. 19.3. 2 Chron. 29. 2 Chron. 33.15, 16. 2 Chron. 34.31, 32, 33. Nehem. 13.15 ad finem. Dan. 3.29. 1 Tim. 2.2. Rev. 17.16, 17.

[36] 1 Pet. 2.14. Rom. 13.3, 4.

[37] Επισκοπος των εξο της εκκλησιας, Euseb. vit. Constant. cap. 24.

[38] Isa. 49.22. Psal. 72.10, 11. Isa. 60.10. Rev. 21.24.

[39] 1 Cor. 5.12.

[40] Ab Apostolis usque ad nostri temporis fecem, Ecclesia Christi nata & Adulta persecutionibus crevit, Martyriis coronata est; et postquam ad Christianos Principes venit, potentiâ quidem & divitiis major, sed virtutibus minor facta est. Hieron. tom. 1. in vitâ Malchi.

[41] Act. 28.22.

[42] Act. & Mon.

[43] Spanhemius in a Book, called Englands warning, by Germanies woe; or, An Historicall Narration of the Anabaptists in Germany, &c.

[44] By Mr. Carthwright, against Archb. Whitgift. Mr. Vdal. Mr. Hildersham. Mr. Traverse, &c.

[45] Heb. 13.17, 24.

[46] 1 Pet. 5.3. Ier. 10.16.

[47] Non quia soli, sed quia solùm præsunt.

[48] De divers. grad. Minist. Evang. cap. 11, p. 108.

[49] Calvin. in locum. Chrysostom. upon 1 Cor. 12.28. Estius upon 1 Cor 12.28.

[50] ומעדרנא ומדברנא

[51] Κυβερνησειζ.

[52] Gerhardus de Ministerio Ecclesiastico, Calvin. in locum, P. Martyr, in locum. Beza in locum. Piscator in locum. Ambros. in locum. Chrys. in locum. Salmer. in locum, Septimo loco ponit gubernatores, id est, eos qui præsunt aliis, & gubernant, plebemque in officio continent. Et Ecclesia Christi habet suam politiam, & cum Pastor per se omnia præstare non posset, adjungebantur ille duo Presbyteri, de quibus dixit, Qui bene præsunt Presbyteri, duplici honore digni habeantur, maxime qui laborant in verbo & doctrina; Qui una cum Pastore deliberabant de Ecclesiæ cura, & instauratione: qui etiam fidei atque honestæ vitæ consortes erant.

[53] Estius in Rom. 12. Aliis placet etiam hac parte speciale quoddam charisma sive officium significari, & misereri dicatur is qui ab Ecclesia curandis miseris, potissimum ægrotis, præfectus est, iisque præbet obsequia; velut etiam hodie fit in nosocomiis; qui sensus haudquaquam improbabilis est.

[54] Cornelius à Lapide, in Rom. 12.6, 7, 8.

[55] Whitak. in prælectionibus suis, ut refert in refutatione Dounami Sheervodius, cited by the Author of Altare Damascen. cap. 12. pag. 925, 926.

[56] Whitgift against Carthwright.

[57] In a Sermon of his in print.

[58] De perpetua Eccl. gubernat.

[59] 2 Cor. 11.27. 1 Thess. 2.9.

[60] Beza in 1 Tim. 5.17. Piscator in locum. Calvin. in loc.

[61] Non enim una persona potest dici Ecclesia cum Ecclesia sit populus & Regnum Dei.

[62] Heb. 13.17, 24.

[63] Chrys. upon Matth. 18.

[64] Camer. de Ecclesia, upon Matth. 18.

[65] pag. 208, 209, 221.

[66] pag. 146.

[67] unde & Synagoga, & postea Ecclesia Seniores habuit, quorum sine consilio nihil agebatur in Ecclesia; quod qua negligentiâ obsoleverit nescio, nisi forte Doctorum desidiâ, aut magis superbiâ, dum soli volunt aliquid videri, Ambros. in 1 Tim. 5.

[68] Præsident probati quique Seniores honorem istum non pretio sed testimonio adepti. Tertull. Apolog. cap. 39.

[69] Nonnulli præpositi sunt qui in vitam & mores eorum qui admittuntur inquirant, ut qui turpia committant iis communi cœtu interdicant, qui vero ab istis abhorrent, ex animo complexi meliores quotidie reddant, Orig. lib. 3. Contra Celsum.

[70] Basil in Psalm 33. Ubi quatuor gradus Ministrorum constituit, quod scilicet alii sint in Ecclesia instar oculorum, ut Seniores; alii instar linguæ, ut Pastores; alii tanquam manus, ut Diaconi, &c.

[71] Optatus lib. 1. advers. Parmen. mentioning a persecution, that did for a while scatter the Church, saith, Erant Ecclesiæ ex auro & argento quam plurima ornamenta, nec defodere terræ, nec secum portare poterat, quare fidelibus Ecclesiæ Senioribus commendavit. Albaspinæus that learned Antiquary upon that place acknowledged, That besides the Clergy, there were certain of the Elders of the people, men of approved life, that did tend the affaires of the Church, of whom this place is to be understood.

[72] Et nos habemus in Ecclesia Senatum nostrum, cœtum Presbyterorum; cum ergo inter cœtera etiam senes Judea perdiderit quomodo poterit habere concilium, quod proprie Seniorum est? Hier. in Is. 3.2.

[73] Aug. writing in his 137. Epistle to those of his own Church, directs his Epistle, Dilectissimis Patribus, Clero, senioribus, & universæ plebi Ecclesiæ Hipponensis.

So again. Aug. lib. 3. contra Cresconium, cap. 56. Peregrinus Presbyter, & Seniores Ecclesiæ Musticanæ regionis.

Again, Sermo. 19. de verbis Domini. Cum ob errorem aliquem a Senioribus arguuntur & imputantur alicui de illis, cur ebrius fuerit? &c.

Again, Epistola Synodalis Concilii Carbarsussitani apud eundem, Aug. enar. in Psalm 36. Necesse nos fuerit Primiani causam quem plebs sancta Carthaginensis Ecclesiæ Episcopum fuerat in oculis Dei sortita, Seniorum literis ejusdem Ecclesiæ postulantibus audire atque discutere.

[74] Gregor. Magnus. lib. 11. ep. 19. Si quid de quocunque Clerico ad aures tuas pervenerit, quod te juste possit offendere, facile non credas, sed præsentibus Ecclesiæ tuæ Senioribus diligenter est perscrutanda veritas, & tunc si qualitas rei poposcet, Canonica districtio culpam feriat delinquentis. We should have added before, that in actis purgationis Cæciliani & Fælicis; We read Episcopi, Presbyteri, Diaconi, Seniores. Again, Clerici & Seniores Cirthensium. Sundry Letters were produced and read in the conference: one directed, Clero & Senioribus: another, Clericis & Senioribus. The Letter of Purpurius to Sylvanus, speaketh thus, Adhibete conclericos, & Seniores plebis Ecclesiasticos viros, & inquirant diligenter quæ sint istæ dissensiones.

[75] Sutlivius de Concil. ab 1. cap. 8 saith, that among the Jews Seniores tribuum, the Elders of the Tribes did sit with the Priests in judging controversies of the Law of God. Hence he argues against Bellarmine, that so it ought to be in the christian Church also, because the priviledge of christians is no less then the priviledg of the Jewes.

[76] 1 Cor. 10.16, 17.

[77] Rom. 4.11.

[78] Joh. 6.63.

[79] 1 Tim. 4.8.

[80] 2 Chr. 23.19. Ezek. 44.7, 8.

[81] Levit. 10.10. Ezek. 22.26.

[82] 1 Cor. 5.13. Rev. 2.14, 15, 20. Tit. 3.10.

[83] Levit. 19.17.

[84] 1 Sam. 2.

[85] Zelum singularem laudat in tuenda disciplina Ecclesiæ, quod vitiis in cœtu grassantibus se fortiter opposuerit, scandalosos censuris debitis correxerit, vel Ecclesiæ communione ejecerit. Ita enim præcepit Christus & Apostolus, & viguerunt censuræ in primitiva Ecclesia magno bono, Pareus in locum.

[86] That the Church of Ephesus, is not Individually, but collectively to be taken, vide Smectymnuum.

[87] 1 Cor. 12.28. 1 Tim. 5.17. 1 Thess. 5.12. Heb. 13.17.

[88] Gal. 6.6. where the word κατηχουμενος properly signifieth a teaching by questions and answers.

[89] Mihi quidem sufficit conscientia mea, vobis autem necessaria est fama mea. Aug. ad fratr. in Eremo.

[90] Tertullian. Apologet.

[91] In his Book of Christian subjection, &c.

[92] In his letters to Wadesworth.

[93] J.G.

[94] Pezelii mellificium historicum, pars 2. pag. 268.

[95] M. Stock upon Malachy, cap. 3.