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bishop ? were made by him * One nullity breaks the whote chain . 3 . None , upon this principle , can be assured he is a true minister , though episcopally ordained : how shall people be satisfied that their ministers are true ministers , when for aught they know the line of succession is interrupted ? How can ! know that the bishop ordaining * or his ordainer , werettot iacapable by simony , or otherwise ?
4 . If there be an uninterrupted succession of bishops , so there is also of presbyters . Object . — " But they have lost their ordaining power , " said Mr . Dodwelh Ansyo *— " Then they had it originally , and the restraint is canonical , not scriptural , which suspends the act , but takes hot away the power . **
The instances of Timothy and Titus and the seven Asian Angels were the principal , if not the only , things urged at the Hall out of Scripture , for the necessity of episcopal ordination ; to which it was answered , that it had been allowed by bishop Stillingfleet , that the superiority which Timothy and Titus had over their churches does not prove that form of government necessary in all churches . But admitting that Timothy was really bishop of Ephesus , it will not serve the prelatical cause , unless
its patrons can prove the Ephesian to have been of equal extent with our diocesan churches . The members of the church of Ephesus met at one place , and received the Lord ' s Supper toge ~ ther , even long after Timothy ' s time , [ Ignat . Epist . ad Ephes . ] Timothy had not 2 or 300 churches , and so many presbyters
under hits care and inspection We don ' t read . { hat Timothy andi Titus , or a , ny others were twice ordained , first priests , then bi&hops , which had been absolutely necessary if they be really distinct officers . When Paul took his leave of Ephesus , he
committed the oversight of the church to the elders or presbyters , though Timothy their pretended bishop was present ( Acts xx * 4 . 6 . 7 . ) . The whole diocesan power is given to the presbyters , before the supposed diocesan ' s face , and not a word spoken to , or of Timothy ( Acts xx . 17 . 28 . 38 . 39 . )* Object . —~ « But he was not a bishop at that time /' €
An $ w . —* If so , how comes Paul to be so regardless of the church , when he was never to see their faces more , as not to pamc his successor ?"— " Timothy was an evangelist , an extrasordinary officer , and as such had no successor , " A further account of this debate was left by Mr . O . in a MS ,
which he called ?* A Modest Examination of the Bishop of St . Asaph ' s Notes upon the London Jus Divinum Ministerii Evange-Kci , " where he observes that the first council that ever decreed the divine right of episcopacy was that pi Trent , and that the pa-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/13/
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