the People's Approbation to the Epifcopal Au

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 Prefence and Cognizance of the
People, for better knowledge of the Candidates,
was wife in the Ancients, and is continu'd in
the Church of England fill, p. 153. The
Cafe of St. Matthias and the feven Deacons
confider'd; and neither one nor t'other counte-
nance a popular Election of Paftors in the
Church, p. 155, &c.

CHA P. IV. P. 165.

TH

He

HE Enquirer's Impartiality a little

doubtful in this Cause, p. 166.

afferts Equality of Order in Bishop and Presby

ter. A ruling Power in the Presbyter given

for one inftance of that Equality, and yet 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 Antiquity, concerning

the holy Rite of advancing a Presbyter to the

Station of a Bishop, p. 168. That Judgment

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

all

all importing the Collation of a different Order

by it (ibid) to p. 175. And further, the Pres-

byter fo advanced could perform fuch clerical

Offices then, as he could not do before: what

Tertullian's Meaning is of approv'd Elders

prefiding, and Firmilian's of his Majores

Natu; neither one nor t'other refer to the pre-

fidency of the Presbyters with their Bishops in

the private Confiftories, as Co-partners with

them in the executive part of the Ecclefia

ftical 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 yet that Text, 1 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 Bi-

fhop could do, p. 188. Nor does the Letter of

the Roman Presbyters to thofe at Carthage im-

ply any fuch thing, p. 191. To prove that

Presbyters could Confirm, the Enquirer makes

that holy Office a meer part or Appendix of

Baptifm, and the very fame with Abfolution

of Penitents. The Invalidity of his Proof for

it, and the Inconfiftency of the thing itself,

and the true nature of Primitive Confirma-

tion

tion explain'd, and appropriated to the Bishop

alone, p. 194, &c. The Enquirer's fecond

general reafon for Equality of Order, from

identity of Title or Appellations, fhewn to be of

no force, and a reafon affign'd why clerical

Titles were fo indifferently used all the Apostle's

Times, and the Title of Bishop fo peculiarly ap-

propriated afterwards, p. 207. His third

general Reafon, viz. That the Ancients ex-

prefly 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 facred

Text, Ifa. 60. 17. (us'd by them both) and

laftly, that of Clemens Alexandrinus, p.

222. The Enquirer affirms St. Cyprian

calls his Presbyters his Colleagues; his Mi-

ftake fhewn, p. 230. His fingular reafon for

the number of Presbyters in many particular

Primitive Churches, p. 234. The divine

and apoftolical Inftitution of Bishops, Priefts

and Deacons in the Church obferved from

Clemens Alexandrinus's account of St. John'

the Apoftle's folemn Ordinations. p. 234.

CHAP.

CHA P. V.

p. 236.

Eacons by a mistaken Paffage in St. Ig-
natius, ftyl'd Deacons of the Meats
and Cups. That Father clears them of that
Title, and ftyles them Minifters of the
Church of God. The Enquirer (to ftrengthen
his Notion of the equal Orders of Bishop and
Presbyter) fuppofes the fame in Deacons and
Sub-deacons, which is a wide Miftake, and
against matter of Fact, p. 237. His ac-
count of the primitive manner of ordaining
Presbyters, p. 239. 'Tis no Pattern of the
Catholick Practice then, tho' reprefented as
fuch, by mifquoting 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
too, p. 243. The Primitive Qualifications
for holy Orders, requir'd and provided for
by the Conftitusion of the Church of England,
p. 251. Some Remarks upon the manner of
the Minifters Maintenance in the Primitive
Times: That it was no Subscription of the
Brethren (as the Enquirer makes it) but of a
very different Nature, p. 255. The Notion

of the Primitive Fathers about paying Tythes,
(ibid.)

CHAP. VI. p. 260.

OF

F the Lay-members Rights and Pri-
vileges in the Church. The Enquirer
affirms, that to elect and depofe their Bishop,
were peculiar Acts belonging to them. Their
right of electing is confider'd and refuted be-
fore, Chap 3. p. 138, &c. That of depriv
ing is wholly grounded upon the pretended Ex-
ample of the People in Spain depriving of
their Bishops (Bafilides and Martialis ;) the
palpable Mifapplication of that matter of Fact,

p. 261.

The Enquirer owns that the An-
cients both us'd the Authority of a Synod for
depofing Bilhops, and afcrib'd the thing it felf
to them, p. 264. Nay, confeffes it was ne-
ceffary, p. 266. A Short Specimen of the
Difcipline prefcrib'd and injoyn'd by the Church
of England for the benefit of her Children af-
ter the Example of the Primitive Church. ibid.

CHA P. VII. P. 270.

F the Government and Policy of the
Primitive Charch in her Ecclefiaftical
Courts; the Enquirer affirms, the Laity and
Clergy