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ordained and ordered, constituted and corrected, 

 created and governed by Titus alone; and so he, 

 in right of the premises, no other than *metro- 

 politan, or archbishop there; the angel, or the 

 arch-angel rather, of the whole church of Crete. 

 If you ask, who fixed him the intelligence of so 

 large an orbe? it was Paul himself, (you have 

 that too in the text,) For this cause left I thee in 

 Crete, If yet higher, your curiosity will needs 

 see the derivation of St. Paul's poorer too; he 

 opens his commission, verse 1, and spreads it be- 

 fore youj styling himself a servant of God, and 

 an Apostle of Jesus Christ : one sent abroad into 

 the world by his commission, acted, and assisted 

 by his Spirit, to plant, and to govern churches 

 after this scheme, and model. So that my text, 

 like Homers ^symbolical chain, consists, you 

 see, of many links ; but the highest is tied to the 

 foot of Jupiter's throne : or rather, like Jacob's 

 mysterious ladder, the foot of it stands below in 

 Bethel, the house of God, '^K ^\ xf^aA? zU tov ^po^uov, 

 the head of it is in Heaven, and God himself 

 stands at the top of it, and leans § upon it, and 

 keeps it firm ; angels ascending and descending 

 upon it in the intermediate degrees ; the bishops 



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