_Jeremy Taylor's Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 271.).--It seems desirable that an
advance should occasionally be made in _editing_, beyond the mere
verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages
cited are _applicable_ to the point in hand, and properly apprehended.
Bp. Taylor, in his _Liberty of Prophecying_, sect. vi., for instance,
seems incorrect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome, _rejected_ the
Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs are directed against
Anatolias, bishop of Constantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to
ecclesiastical supremacy. (See _Concilia Studio Labbei_, tom. iv., col.
844, &c.)
A passage frown Jerome's _Epistle to Evangelus_ is often quoted in works
on church government, as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop
and presbyter; but the drift of the argument seems to be, to show that
the _site_ of a bishop's see, be it great or small, important or
otherwise, does not affect the episcopal _office_. Some readers will
perhaps offer an opinion on these two questions.