A summarie view of the government both of the old and new testament whereby the episcopall government of Christs church is vindicated out of the rude draughts of Lancelot Andrewes, late Bishop of Winchester : whereunto is prefixed (as a preamble to the whole) a discovery of the causes of the continuance of these contentions touching church-government out of the fragments of Richard Hooker.

[Of the promiscuous use of their NAMES.]

These were they whom posterity called Bishops. But in the beginning, regard was not had to distin∣ction of Names. The authority and power was ever di∣stinct: the name not restrained, either in This, or O∣ther.

The Apostles were called

• Priests or Seniors. (1. Pet. 5.1.)
• Deacons or Ministers. (1. Cor. 3.5.)
• Teachers or Doctors. (1. Tim. 2.7.)
• Bishops or Overseers. (Acts 1.20.)
• Prophets. (Acts 13.1. Revel. 22.9.)
• Evangelists. (1. Cor. 9.16.)

The name of Apostle was enlarged, and made com∣mon to more then the XII.

To Barnabas. (Act. 14.4, 14..)

Andronicus. (Rom. 16.7.)

Epaphroditus. (Phil. 2. 25.)

Titus and others. (2. Cor. 8.23.)

Timothy. (Hieron in Cant. Chr. Euseb.)

The Priests were called

Prophets. (1. Cor. 14.32.)

Bishops. (Philip. 1.1. Tit. 1.7.)

So Chrysostom, in Philip. 1.

[Quid hoc? an unius civitatis multi erant episcopi? Nequaquàm: sed Presbyteros isto nomine appellavit. Tune e∣nim nomina adhuc erant communia.]

Hierome:

Hîc episcopos Presbyteros intelligimus; non enim in unâ urbe plures Episcopi esse potu∣issent.

Theodoret:

Non fieri quidem poterat, ut multi E∣piscopi essent unius civitat is pastores; quo fit, ut essent soli Presbyteri, quos vocavit Episcopos.

& in 1. Tim. 3.

Eosdem olim vocabant Episcopos & Presbyteros: eos autem qui nunc vocantur Episcopi, nominabant Apostolos.

Oecum••nius:

Non quòd in unâ civitate multi es∣sent Episcopi, &c.

For in the Apostles absence in Churches new planted, the oversight was in them; till the Apostles ordai∣ned and sent them a Bishop, either by reason of some schisme or for other causes.

The Bishops (as the Ecclesiasticall History recoun∣teth

them) were called

Apostles. (Philip. 2.25.)

Evangelists. (2. Tim. 4.5.)

Diaconi. (1. Tim. 4.6.)

Priests. (1. Tim. 5.17.)

[For it is plaine by the epistle of Irenaeus to Victor, in] Eusebius, lib. 5. cap. 26. that they at the begin∣ning were called Priests, that in very truth and pro∣priety of speech were Bishops. And by Theodoret [in 1. Tim. 3.] that they which were Bishops, were at the first called Apostles.

The name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, saith Suidas, was given [by the Athenians to them which were sent to oversee the Cities that were under their jurisdiction. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Suid. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.]

The name Episcopus was given among the Romans to him, qui praeerat pani & vaenalibus ad victum quo∣tidianum. ff. de munerib. & honorib.

Cicero, ad Atticum lib. 7. epist. 10. Vult me Pom∣peius esse, quem tota haec Campania & maritima ora ha∣beat Episcopum.

The name in Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Gen. 41.34. see∣meth to have relation to the second use. for they were such as had charge of the graine laying up, and selling under Ioseph.