340 APPENDIX. 



I shall not send them to Clemens's book, that 

 bears that name, but to the Universal Practice of 

 the Ancient Church, in which they are still m 

 great part visible; and thence handed over to 

 posterity by tradition and conformity of practice, 

 and bv deorees inserted into the canons of the 

 old councils, as occasion was offered, and into the 

 ordinals of several churches. Or, if a readier 

 and more present answer be required, I know not 

 where to design it you nearer at hand, or more 

 full to your satisfaction, than by dismissing you, 

 to attend the great action that is to follow. In 

 which you will see all so grave and solemn, so 

 pious and devout, so primitive and apostolical, 

 and so exactly up to the level of the text, and the 

 'n? lyco ^iSTOi^aixnv of St. Paul here, that I know 

 not where to point you out so pregnant and full a 

 comment upon my text, nor what better amends 

 to make you for my own failings upon it. 



And yet, having thus hastily run it over, with 

 all its parts and branches, (some few sands still 

 remaining of that heap, the bounty of your pa- 

 tience allows me,) I will crave leave briefly to 

 take a second view of it in the auditory itself, 

 and read it over again in the face of the assembly. 

 For the better part of it, your own thoughts have 

 already prevented me ; and every eye hath singled 

 out our most Reverend Titus, ywiov rki^ov, a genuine 

 son and successor of the Apostles, upon the very 

 act of constituting npEo-pvrs^ag y.o(]oi zjoXiv, more than 

 a whole province of Elders at once : Men able to 



