.· " i~ theft WeJFern Parts, where themfelves receive cl "their Orders, but what was conveyed to them even "by fuch Bijhops as theft were. · _And Pag. 48-4, 485, 486. he fheweth at large, '~ [That A~l the Authority w~ich can be pretended in " a!ly Communion at the prefent, muft be derived from "the Epifcopal; efpecially of that Age wherein 'thefe1 ~.~. ver11.l Parties began.-Within le{s thttn Two /-funcc dred Years jince, there w.u no Church in the World "w_herein aVifibte S1tccejfion w.u maintained from the "Apoftles., which w.u not Epifcopally Governed. And · '~ the firft Inventers of the feveral Sells were at firft . ::Members of theft Epifoo- * Or Papal, fay others. • pal Churches*, and re- " ceived both their Baptifm -'' in them; and all the Ordeu they received._:_There "w.u then no other Communion that could give this "Auth'ority.- Our Adverfaries will not deny,.:_ "but that their Orders were received by them, were – ~' aBually received by their Forefathers in the Epi[- . ''copalCommunion*.-They *And the Papal. " have aCiua/ly received no . . ''morePower fromGod, t~an tc they have received from their Ordainers;-For ~'-their Ordainers,are they;and they alone,who have re"– "' prefemed Gods Perfon in ,. Reptefenting his Per- " dealing with them *.-· fon is a high word. But he " ·z. They· have t~Efua//11 re· never enabled them to · .)' change his Laws,or Church- " ceived from tpeir Super.i.:. Offices; but only as Ser- "ors nothing but what their vants, to deliver that fame '' Superiors did aCiually itJPower by way of Invefri- ' ture, whieh he had inftitutedand defcribed inhis Law, and was in their Commiffion : As the Londoners may not change the Lord Mayor's Qffice, but put him in that which the Charter inaketh. · - · - · ___.,-- '·'tend ....
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