statement-"Quod hierarchicus catholicae ecclesiaeae ordo, quo presbyteri
episcopis, diaconi presbyteris, populus presbyteris et diaconis subditus
est, ab Hygino compositus esse hic dicitur, _non aliter intelligi
potest_, quam quod Hyginus hierarchiae ecclesiasticae jam tempore
apostolorum a Christo Domino constitutae, et a sanctis Patribus ipso
antiquioribus comprobatae, quaedam duntaxat injuria temporum et
scriptorum deperdita addiderit, vel eadem quae Divino jure instituta, et
a patribus comprobata sunt, hac constitutione sua illustraverit."
--_Concilia_, i. 65, 66.

[552:3] "Hic clerum composuit, et distribuit gradus."--_Binii Concil._
i. 65. Baronius, ad annum, 158.

[553:1] When referring to this statement Baronius says--"Porro quod ad
gradus cujusque ordinis in Ecclesia, quo ecclesiastica habetur composita
hierarchia, jam a temporibus apostolorum haec facta esse, _Ignatio
auctore_ et aliis, tomo primo Annalium demonstravimus; verum _aliqua
antiquae formae ab Hyginio fuisse addita_, vel eadem illustrata, _aequum
est aestimare_."

[554:1] See Kaye's "Tertullian," p. 414.

[555:1] 1 Tim. v. 17.

[555:2] Euseb. iv. 11; iv. 19. Dr Burton has well observed that
Alexandria and Antioch were "the hotbeds from which nearly all the
mischief arose, which, under the name of philosophy, inundated the
Church in the second century."--_Lectures_, vol. ii. p. 103.

[556:1] Period II. sec. iii. chap. v. pp. 516, 517.

[556:2] "Quanquam sunt inter scriptores ecclesiasticos qui putaverint
Polycarpum Romam venisse, ut quaereret de festo paschatis: ex his
Irenaei verbis luco clarius elucet, _ob alias causas_ Ioannis apostoli
discipulum Romam profectum esse."--_Stieren's Irenaeus_, i. p. 826,
note.

[557:1] Euseb. v. 24.

[557:2] Stieren's "Irenaeus," i. 827.

[557:3] First, as his senior; and secondly, as a disciple of the
apostles.

[557:4] It was a standing rule of the Church that a strange bishop
should be thus treated. See "Didascalia," by Platt, p. 97.

[559:1] "_Paulatim_ vero, ut dissensionum plantaria evellerentur, ad
unum omnem solicitudinem esse delatam."--_Comment. in Tit_.

[560:1] Period II. sec. iii. chap. 5, pp. 510, 512, 516, 520.

[560:2] But the presiding elders now began generally to be called
bishops.

[560:3] Thus, though, as we may infer from the testimony of Tertullian,
Christianity was planted in North Britain in the second century, the
universal tradition is that originally there were no bish