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echo of that noise, and stiff debate, which passed 

 upon that argument within the walls of that 

 council. However they like it on this side the 

 hills or beyond, St. Paul stands firmly by us, 

 and voucheth the grand charter of his Apostolate 

 for all : Me me, adsum qui fecit — It was I, the 

 Apostle of Jesus Christ, that left Titus to ordain 

 Elders in Crete ; and what Kpno-ipjyfTciv will be 

 found for this argument ? It was the Holy Ghost 

 that made you bishops, saith the same Apostle* 

 to the elders at Miletus ; so that these are no 

 Milesian fables, but \ the words of truth and 

 soberness, a part of the Holy and Divine IIpaJaTro- 

 ^oXQ]f, the real acts and gests of the Apostles of 

 Christ; nay, the act and deed of Christ himself 

 by his Apostle, according to that rule of the He- 

 brewSjJ Apostolus, cujusq. est, ut qidsque. And 

 so much for the original of the power. 



I go on (II) to the subject, and that is Titus : 

 Ego te, I left thee. 



(1.) Thee first, mine host, and of the whole 

 church. For, when the Jews at Corinth § contra- 

 dicted and blasphemed the doctrine delivered 

 by St. Paul, he shook his raiment, and || departed 

 into the house of one Justus, (so we read it after 

 the Greek copies,) one that worshipped God, and 



"* Acts, XX. 38. 



-j- Acts, xxvi. 25. 



X iniDD mi^ hm ^n^hm Talm. in Kidduschin. fol. 41.2. 



§ Acts, xviii, 6. 



!l V. 7. 



