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Eusebius. The defects of his Ecclesiastical History, 522

Superior erudition of Jerome, 523

His account of the origin of Prelacy, 524

Prelacy originated after the apostolic age, 527

Suggested by the distractions of the Church, 529

Formidable and vexatious character of the early heresies, 530

Mode of appointing the president of the eldership changed.

Popular election of bishops, how introduced, 532

The various statements of Jerome consistent, 533

The primitive moderator and the bishop contrasted, 535

How the decree relative to a change in the ecclesiastical

constitution adopted throughout the whole world, ib.