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was from our Lord, by his Apostle : I did it, his 

 commissioner. 



(1.) And therefore, first, not a suffragan of St* 

 Peter, as some of the Romish partizans would 

 fain have it;* who, to serve the over-high pre- 

 tences of that court, are not content to dogma- 

 tise, that St. Peter was the prince, and sovereign 

 of the Apostles, and his very successors superior 

 to the Apostles that survived him; and that, they 

 being once all dead, there was never since any 

 power in the church, but in succession to him, 

 and by derivation from him ; dare yet higher, 

 and with strange confidence pronounce, that the 

 Apostles themselves were all ordained by St. 

 Peter, and he alone by Christ : And that, when 

 the Holy Ghost said,| Separate me Barnabas and 

 Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them; 

 they were thereupon sent up to Jerusalem, to be 

 ordained by St. Peter. Affirmations so very 

 strange, that I know not what can be more ; un- 

 less this be, that they should think them passable 

 with us, upon the authority of JPetrus Comestor, 

 the Scholastic historian, and those suspected § de- 

 cretals of the false merchant I mentioned at the 

 beginning. Whereas, for the imposition of hands 

 upon Barnabas and Saul, (were it a blessing, or 



* Suar. adv. feet. Angl. 1. 3. c. 12. f. Bellarm. de R. Pont. 1. l. 

 c. 1 1. f. c. 23. Magal. in I. Tim. Proaem. sect. 11. & 13. 

 t" Acts, xiii. 2. 

 X Hist. Act. Ap. c. 70. 

 § Anacleti, Felicis I. Inn. I. 



