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thevery Mouth of their Idols of Stone, waiting to fee what Commands he will lay upon them. And whatfoever he commands them, that they do, and without him they do nothing; and they honour him their pretended Prieft, and efteem his Name as venerable in honour of lifelefs Statues, and in order to the Worfhip of wicked Spirits. If these Heathens therefore, who give Glory to lying Vanities, and place their Hope upon nothing that is firm, endeavour to imitate the facred Rules, how much more reafonable is it that you, who have a moft cere tain Faith, and undoubted Hope, and who expeât_glorious, and eternal, and ne vcrfailing Promifes, hould honour God in thofe fet of ver you, and efteem your Bifhop to be the Mouth ofGod :

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· εψευσμένα. V. i defunt. v.

XXIX.

Exed,

Vil. I.

243.

For if Aaron, because he
declar'd to Pharaoh the Words
of God from Mofes, is call'da
a Prophet; and Mofes him-
felf is call'd a God to Pha-
raoh, on account of his be-
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him, I have made thee a God
to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy
Brother hall be thy Prophet;
why do not ye alfo esteem
the Mediators of the Word
to be Prophets, and reverence
them as Gods?

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let all things that he is to do
with any one be made known
to the Bishop, and be finally

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δι' αυτό τελειέπω.

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nor give any thing without
his Confent. For if he gives
to any one as to a Perfon in
Diftrefs, without the Bishop's
Knowledge, he gives it fo
that it must tend to the Re-
proach of the Bishop, and he
accules him as carelefs of the
Diftreffed. But he that cafts
Reproach on his Bishop, ei-

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pofes God, not hearkening

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If therefore, O Deacon, thou knoweft any one to be in Diftrefs, put the Bifhop in mind of him, and fo give to hum; but do nothing in a clandeftine way, fo as may tend to his Reproach, left thou raife a Murmur againft him. For the Murmur will not be againft him, but against the Lord God: And the Deacon, with the reft, will hear what faron and Miriam heard, when they Namb. fpake againft Mofes, How is xii. 8. it that ye were not afraid to Ipeak againft my Servant ivio Mo fes? And again, Mofes fays to thofc who rofe up againit him, Tour Murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord our God. For if He that calls

Exod. xvi. 8

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