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 Fulk, Biſhop Pilkington, Biſhop Fox, &c. Dr. Dunbar, Dr. Hooker, Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Holland, and Dr. Stillingflee in their Writings, overthrow the pretended Divine Right, Prelacy, and plead for it only, as an humane Inſtitution. And not only to, but theſe very Biſhops and prelatical Divines, give their clear and full Conſent, That Arch-epiſcopacy, as it differs from Presbytery, was only of human Right, and not of divine Inſtitution: And theſe Biſhops and Doctors further affirm and prove out of the Fathers, That the Church, at firſt, was governed by common Counſel Presbyters. And therefore Biſhops (ſays One of them out Hierom) muſt underſtand, that they be greater than Miniſters, rather by Cuſtom, than the Lord's Appointment;  the Biſhops came in after the Apoſtles Times. Jus Divinus Miniſteri Evangel. Part 2d. Chap. iv.

Alſo, Daniel Tilen, in his Diſputations in the College Sedan, Geneva, printed 1618. P. 544, declares, That Difference between Biſhop and Presbyter, hath no Foundation in the ſacred Scriptures, but is only founded upon humane Inſtitution: For Confirmation of which, he cites ''Hierom. Lombard. Gratian. Card. Cuſan.'' All which fairly yield the Cauſe of the pretended Divine Right of Prelacy.

Authority of that moſt ancient Parchment M. Copy of the Bible, remaining in his Majeſty's Library at St. James's, being all written in great Capital Greek Letters was vouched and aſſerted by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, in Speech delivered by him on Friday, June 11, 1641, in  Morning, upon the Debate of the Bill touching Biſhops, &c, by which it infallibly appeareth, That the ſtiling of Timothy the firſt Biſhop of Epheſues, and Titus the firſt Biſhop of Creo are but the bold and ſpurious Additions of ſome Eaſtern Biſhop or Monk, to the Poſtſcripts of thoſe Epiſtles of St. Paul at leaſt 500 Years after Chriſt, The Poſtſcripts of the  Epiſtles, in that ancient Manuſcript, agreeing in the  with the Siriac Teſtament, are only thus: The firſt Timothy, written from Laodicea; The ſecond to Timothy, written from Laodicea; To Titus, written from Nicepolis. The rare M.S. was ſent to his Majeſty, that now is, by Cyrelius, then Patriarch of Alexandria; in which the firſt Letter A. ſtands for  and the ſecond Letter B. for