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Quapropter eis qui in ecclesia sunt Presbyteris obaudire oportet his qui successionem habent ab Apostolis sicut ostendimus, qui cum Epis∣copatus successione Charisma veritatis certum, secundum placitum patris acceperunt.
In which he shews, That in every Church there ought to be Pres∣byters, who are to have their succession from the Apostles.
This may be seen in Origen. Euseb. Hist. Lib. 6. cap. 2. Videns De∣metrius Episcopus quod ad ipsum praecipuè doctrinae gratiâ & praedica∣tionis verbi multitudines plurimae convolarent, & Calezizandi ei, id est, docendi magisterium in ecclesia tribuit, which I take to be Cate∣chizing.
Lib. 6. cap: 5. Nam cum apud Palaestinam praecipui & eminentes inter Episcopos viri id est, Hierosolimorum Alexander, & Theotistus, Cesareae, videntes divinum opus verbo Dei ordinassent eum Presbyte∣rum, ac eum Sacerdotio jam nam{que} dignum probarent.
Sacerdos is usually applyed to the Pastors Ministery, which he was thought worthy of, but received it not; which proves this Presbyter∣ship he now received, was nothing else but the Doctors office, as ap∣pears more clearly in the words following, Origines apud Alexan∣driam Doctor ecclesiae valdè clarus habebatur.
Lib. 6. cap. 17. Post Philetum autem apud Antiochiam Zebenus ecclesiam suscepit, quo in tempore Origines rogatus est ab ecclesiis; (that is, the distinct Societies at Antioch) apud Antiochiam ut illò us{que} pro convincendis haereticis qui inibi liberius convaluerant perveniret, quò cum pergeret & iter necessariò ageret per Palestinam, Presbyter apud Caesaream ab illius provinciae Episcopis ordinatur.
1. By his first Presbytership he ministred at Alexandria.
2. By his second at Antioch.
3. He was under Zebenus the Bishop at Antioch, he never assumed that degree of Ministery in the Church.
4. He was Catechist before, by the ordination of Demetrius.
5. In this is observeable, That the People of Antioch had the call of their Ministers, and none assumed that Authority over them in those days.
Justin Martyr speaks nothing of the Discipline of the Church, but in his second Apology made to Antonius Pius, at the end of it, in which he speaks of the Praesul and Praepositus, Lector and Deacons; but the Papists have so corrupted it, as that there is no use to be made of it, there is foisted in it the carrying about of the Sacraments to the sick, the Minister, not the Deacon, to collect the Alms of the Church, &c.