Grotius admits that the Bishop was a
Pastor who presided over the other
Pastors by a perpetual right, 507, 508
that the episcopate, or office of
Bishop, was repugnant to no Divine
Law, and was received by the whole
Church,
509-510
that Aerius was condemned be-
cause he said that a Presbyter ought
not to be distinguished from a Bishop, 510
that Jerome speaks of this doc-
trine as an error,

that the episcopate had its com-
mencement in the time of the Apos-
tles, and quotes Jerome as assenting
to this,

510

510, 511
mentions four successive Bi-
shops of Alexandria, two of Jerusalem,
three of Rome, and two of Antioch,
while the Apostle John was yet living, 511
that the office of Bishop was
approved by the Divine Law, and by
CHRIST himself,

James appointed first Bishop of Jerusa-
lem, by Peter, James, and John,
Jerome states that Bishops were appoint-
ed in the time of the Apostles, and by
them,
225, 243, 380, 513
represents Presbyters as subject
to the Bishops,

240, 266
does not say that the Presbyters
of Alexandria ordained their Bishops,
255, and 256, 528
Ignatius' testimony, 108-123, and App.
mentions in his Epistle to the
Ephesians their Bishop Onesimus,

115

contemporary with both Timo-
thy and Onesimus, Bishops of Ephe.

sus,

118

strong testimony respecting
the Church of the Trallians,
Irenæus' testimony,

119

[128, &c.

K

378, &c.

that Timothy was Bishop of
Ephesus; Titus of Crete; that Apos-
tles were Bishops of certain cities; that
Paul sat in Corinth,
512, 504
that those who ruled the Presby.
ters were at first called Apostles, and
also Angels, and afterwards Bishops,
which took place, Jerome thinks, about
the eighth year of Nero, which was
several years before the death of Paul, 513
that that Apostle who was at
Jerusalem, performed the office which
the Bishop afterwards did,

501

that James was the Bishop of
501, 511

Jerusalem,

that Timothy was the first

Bishop of Ephesus,

that anciently Bishops alone
ordained; a Presbyter being ordained
by one Bishop, but a Bishop by two or
three Bishops,

504

504

that great advantages redound-
ed to the Church from the episcopate, 514
that they who attempt to show
that the name of Bishop was common
to all Pastors, waste their own and
other people's time,

that those who deny the superi-
ority of one Pastor over the rest, con-
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