314; APPENDIX; 



ledge : and Titus himself was present at the in- 

 terview, and so an eye-witness, that in nothing he 

 came behind the very chiefest Apostles ; for they 

 all gave him the right-hand of fellowship, far from 

 exacting the right-hand of pre-eminence : and 

 so Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ, not a deputy 

 of the apostolical college, much less a suffragan 

 of St. Peter, or his legate, a latere, as was pre- 

 tended. But, 



(2.) Not a disciple of Gamaliel. For there is 

 a disputer of this world, who having laid it down 

 for a principle with himself (indeed his -arpcoTov 

 "FfucTo?) that all pretence of ecclesiastical power, 

 as from Christ, is but an imposture, is thereupon 

 obliged to give such an account of the appear- 

 ances of it in the New Testament, as may suit 

 with this Postulatum : And accordingly, for the 

 particular of imposition of hands for ordination of 

 elders* will have it only in pursuance of a Jewish 

 custom, which St. Paul learned at the feet of his 

 master Gamaliel, under whom he commenced 

 elder, before he was Christian, and thereupon, 

 after, thought good to create his own disciples to 

 the same dignity (according to f the law of those 

 schools,) and Titus among the rest, whom he left 

 in Crete, to do the like, and to constitute his 

 scholars elders too, in all the cities where he 

 should preach. A discourse so loose and inco- 



* De Synod, lib. i. cap. 14. p. 569, &c. 



t Page 571. Unusquisfjue rite creatus potest Discipulos suos rite 

 creare. 



