the People's Approbation to the Episcopal Ax-

thority in Ordinations, and there it became a Duty

for the time, but was repealable, because pru-

dential only, and obliged no farther (as the En-

quirer owns) than amongst themselves, p. 151.

To ordain in Presence and Cognizance of the
People, for better knowledge of the Candidates,
Was wise in the Ancients, and is conting'd in
the Church of England still, p. 153. The
Cafe of St. Matthias and the seven Deacons
consider'd; and neither one nor t'other counte-
nance a popular Election of Pastors in the
Church, p. 155, &c.

T

CH A P. IV. P. 165.

HE Enquirer's Impartiality a little

doubtful in this Cause, p. 166. HC
afferts Equality of Order in Bishop and Presby.
ter. Å ruling Power in the Presbyter given
for one instance of that Equality, and get a
palpable inequality of it included in his Defini-
tion of a Presbyter, p. 167. That a Presby-

ter had not an inherent Right in his Orders to

perform the whole Office of a Bishop, prov'd

from the Judgment of Antiquiry, concerning

the holy Rise of advancing a Presbyter to the

Station of a Bishop, p. 168. That Judgment

of theirs Specify'd in fix or seven Instances of it,

all

all importing the Collation of a different Order
by it (ibid) to p. 175. And further, the Pres-
byter so advanced could perform such clerical
Offices then, as he could not do before : what
Tertullian's Meaning is of approv'd Elders
presiding, and Firmilian's of his Majores
Nacu ; neither one nor t'other refer to the

pre-
fidency of the Presbyters with their Bishops in
the private Conhstories, as Co-partners with
them in the executive part of the Ecclefia-
fical Court, from p. 175, to 182. Much
lefs do Firmilian's Words imply a Power of
Ordination in the Presbyters, which they are
quoted for, (ibid.) nor get that Text, i Tim.
4. 14. With the laying on of the Hands
of the Presbytery, p. 183. What Rogatianus
and Numidicus did by St. Cyprian's Order,
no Proof of a Power of Excommunication in
his Presbyters, p. 185. Much less do the
Quotations from his Letters to the Presbyters
and Deacons prove they could do all their Bj-
shop could do, p. 188. Nor does the Letter of
the Roman Presbyters to those at Carthage im-
ply any such thing, p. 191. To prove that
Presbyters could Confirm, the Enquirer makes
that holy Office a meer part of Appendix of
Baptism, and the very fame with Absolution
of Penitents. The Invalidity of bis Proof for
it, and the Inconsistency of the thing itself,
and the true nature of Primitive Confirma-
tion explain'd, and appropriated to the Bishop
alone, p. 194, &c." The Enguirer's second

general reason for Equality of Order, from

identity of Title or Appellations, shewn to be of

no force, and a reason asign'd why clerical

Titles were lo indifferently used all the Apostle's

Times, and the Title of Bishop so peculiarly ap-

propriated afterwards, p. 207. His third

general Reason, viz. That the Ancients ex-

presly affirm there were but two Orders in

the Church, holds good in none of the three

Authorities quoted for it. That of Clemens

Romanus examind, p. 213. And that of

Irenæus, p. 217. Together with the sacred

Text, Ifa. 60..17. (usod by them both) and

laftly, that of Clemens Alexandrinus, p.

The Enquirer affirms St. Cyprian

calls his Presbyters his colleagues ; his Mi-
ftake shewn, p. 230. His fingular reason for

the number of Presbyters in many particular

Primitive Churches, p. 234.

The divine

and apoftolical Institution of Bishops, Priests

and Deacons in the Church observed from

Clemens Alexandrinus's account of St. John

she Apostle's solemn Ordinations. p. 234.

222.

С НА Р.

Eacons by a mistaken Passage in St. Ig-

natius, styld Deacons of the Meats

and Cups. That Father clears them of that

Title, and styles them Ministers of the

Church of God. The Exquirer (to strengthen

his Notion of the equal Orders of Bishop and

Presbyter) supposes the same in Deacons and

Sub-deacons, which is a wide Mistake, and

against matter of Fatt, p. 237. His ac-

count of the primitive manner of ordaining

Presbyters, p. 239. 'Tis no Pattern of the

Catholick Practice then, tho represented as

such, by misquoting St. Cyprian for it, p.241.

What St. Cyprian did in that matter, was

wholly grounded on a private purpose of his

own, and that prov'd at large, both from com.

petent and impartial Judges, and from himself

190, p. 243. The Primitive Qualifications

for holy Orders, requir’d and provided for

by the Constitution of the Church of England,

p. 251. Some Remarks upon the manner of

the Ministers Maintenance in the Primitive

Times : That it was no Subscription of the

Brethren (as the Enquirer makes it) but of

very different Nature, p. 255. The Notion

of

of the Primitive Fathers about paying Tythes,

(ibid.)

C H A P. VI. p. 26o.
F the Lay-members Rights and Pri.

vileges in the Church. The Enquirer

affirms, that to elect and depose their Bishop,

were peculiar Aets belonging to them. Their

right of electing is consider'd and refuted be-

fore, Chap 3. p. 138, &c. That of deprive

ing is wholly grounded upon the pretended Ex-

ample of the People in Spain depriving of

their Bishops (Balilides and Martialis ;) the

palpable Misapplication of that matter of fact,

The Enquirer owns that the An-
cients both us’d the Authority of a Synod for
aeposing Bishops, and ascrib’d the thing it self
to them, p. 264. Nay, confesses it was ne-
cessary, p. 266. A short Specimen of the
Discipline prescribd and injoyn’d by the Church
of England for the benefit of her children af-
ter the Example of the Primitive Church. ibid.

p. 261.

CH A P. VII. P. 270.

F the Government and Policy of the

Primitive Charch in her Ecclesiastical

Courts; the Enquirer afirms, the Laity and

Clergy

O