No parallel to it in more recent times, 511
Argument against heretics from the episcopal succession illustrated, 513
The claims of seniority long respected in various ways, 515
The power of the presiding presbyter limited, for the Church was
    still governed by the common council of the presbyters, 516
Change of the law of seniority, 518
Change made about the end of the second century, ib. 
Singular that many episcopal lists stop at the end of the second
    century, 519
Before that date only one bishop in Egypt, 520
In some places another system set up earlier, 521

CHAPTER VI.

The rise of the hierarchy connected with the spread of heresies.

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.

CHAPTER VII.

Prelacy begins in Rome.

Comparative length of the lives of the early bishops of Rome, 537
Observations relative to a change in the organization of the
    Roman Church in the time of Hyginus, 538
  1.  The statement of Hilary will account for the increased average
      in the length of episcopal life, 539
  2.  The testimony of Jerome cannot otherwise be explained, 540
  3.  Hilary indicates that the constitution of the Church was
      changed about this period, 541
  4.  At this time such an arrangement must naturally have suggested
      itself to the Roman Christians, 542
  5.  The violent death of Telesphorus fitted to prepare the way
      for it,