Palæmon, or, The grand reconciler composing the great difference and disputes about church-government and discovering the primitive government of churches, built upon the Word of God, and the practice of the apostles / compiled by one who labours for the peace of the church.
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Palæmon, or, The grand reconciler composing the great difference and disputes about church-government and discovering the primitive government of churches, built upon the Word of God, and the practice of the apostles / compiled by one who labours for the peace of the church.
Author
T. N.
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[London :: s.n.],
1646.
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Church of England -- Government.
Church polity.
Episcopacy.
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SECT. I.
TO illustrate the truth of these foure Positions, and withall to prove that the Churches were at first governed by Bi∣shops and Presbyters, he begins with the first Church, the Church of Jerusalem, Mother of all Churches, from whence the sound of the Gospel went out into all the world. This Church was un∣der the charge of Iames, the sonne of Alpheus, one of the Apo∣stles, and his Presbyters; No doubt by the consent and appoint∣ment of the other Apostles, providing for the Church there be∣fore their departure into other coa••••s.* 1.1 This appeares by many pregnant passages of the Scriptures, as, Galar 1.18. Gal. 2.9. Act. 15.1, 13, 19. Gal. 2.12. All these places prove that Saint
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Iames had the charge of that Church, as being the chiefe of that first Councel held there, of which we reade, Acts 15. and* 1.2 no∣minated by S. Paul (in that fore-named Epistle to the Gal. 2.9.) before the rest of the Apostles, some of whose names wee finde there recorded; To denote his preheminencie and precedencie in that place.
And that he had Presbyters for his Assistants, appeares by the second verse of the fore-cited Chapter of the Acts. & ch. 21. v. 19. where we find that S. Paul at his last comming to Jerusalem,* 1.3 went in to Iames, where all the Elders were present, to advise with him that had the care of that Church, about the great busi∣nesse then in hand, how to behave himselfe towards those of the Circumcision who beleeved.
Of the Colledge of Presbyters at Jerusalem, and of their con∣currence and assistance with S. Iames in the Government of that Church, we have two unreprovable Arguments in the Acts of the Apostles, Act. 11.30. Act. 15.4, 6, 22, 23.
Notes
* 1.1
This is comir∣med too by Ig∣natius & Clem. Alexandrinus.