[46] It may be sufficient perhaps to refer to “Hey’s Threefold Ministry,” as a synopsis of the Scriptural view of the subject.
[47] See Bishop Hall’s Episcopacy by Divine right.
[48] See Notes, No. II.
[58] Originating probably from a literal interpretation of Matt, xviii. 20. Just as the bowing at The Blessed Name seems derived, by Catholic and pious practice taking literally Philippians ii. 10.
[60] And our false position is frequently increased by our tacitly admitting the popular antithesis between ourselves and the continental Churches, which are taken in a mass—and called, all together, “The Church of Rome!”—Thus we practically overlook the fact, That the Church of Rome is one particular Italian Church: and so increase our own apparent difficulty.
[62a] See Notes, No. II.
[62b] Of the authenticity of the first fifty at least of the Apostolical Canons, there can now be no doubt. They consist of those rules which had grown up in the Church in the Apostles’ days, and the first hundred years after them. They seem to have been composed very early indeed, but gathered together about a hundred years after the death of St. John, (probably, it is said, by Clement of Alexandria) and they are quoted as ancient, about a hundred years later.
[63a] See the Canons of Nice, and the earlier ones of Ancyra and Neocesarea, in Routh’s edition of the Scriptor. Opus, and the Rel. Sacr. vol. iii., and Tertullian adv. Hær. c. 36.
[63b] Such was the extent of discipline indeed, that even common Christians in passing temporarily to another Church, had to take letters of communion from their Bishop.
[65a] See Notes, No. II.