metropolis's

— 2. If they mean that theſe were then made Eccleſiaſtical Metropolis’s, it’s a fiction without, and againſt, Hiſtorical evidence, which tells us of a far later date of Metropolitical Churches. 3. If they mean that they were Metropolis’s only in a Civil ſenſe, and that the Apoſtles, in planting Churches there, purpoſed or ordained that afterwards Church-Power ſhould follow the Order of the Seats of Civil Power, I anſwer 1.[…]