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calls them Bishops in the seventh verse. Were it 

 not for this, and what follows in the next parti- 

 cular, we were, perhaps, at liberty to leave the 

 world at large in its general acception, as it takes 

 in both orders, both useful in every city, and so 

 both to be supplied by Titus, in which * Oecu- 

 menius hath gone before us, affirming, that Titus 

 was left in Crete, to ordain clerks in every city. 

 But we are determined : for, though at present I 

 demand not, that n^fo-j3uTf^o?, wherever it occurs 

 in the New Testament, should signify a Bishop ; 

 yet, that 'ETrtVxoTro? doth so, I shall not doubt to 

 affirm, till I see the text produced that attributes 

 it to some person, otherwise evinced to have been 

 no more than a single Presbyter. 



And thirdly, and lastly, most agreeable also 

 to the text itself, and the distribution of these 

 Presbyters by cities, the peculiar seat of Bishops, 

 according to the scheme of the Ancient Church, 

 and the method the blessed Apostles thought 

 good to use in the plantmg and modelling of it. 

 For, that they preached the Gospel not only in 

 citieSjf but in the countries adjoining; yet planted 

 churches in cities still, and settled single persons 

 their successors there, to govern both the cities 

 and the regions round about, (from whence a city 

 and a church come to be equipollent terms, even 

 in the Apostolical Writings, and n^fo-jSuTf^o? xara 



* Argum. in Tit. Ina KararJjVjj xaJa moX^(; x^^jxy?. 



f H %w^a, vel h iri^) ;^<y^of. Act. xiii. 49. and xiv. 6, 7. 



