[ 271 J ('tend to give them. One (~t) Yes: If the Bifhops '' h k h· jh Id b had- been Makers of the ,, would t in (t 1S ou c Office, and Donors with very clear a). . · abtolute Power; and not: only Servants entrufied to deliver their Mafters Gifts and qf– fices. To the ObjeCtion, that [They ought to have gi– ven more Power,] he anfwers, '' That only proveth "that we have no more, ifthey wronged m.] Where now is all the Reformers Power ? Did the Pope· or his Biihops intend them any againH himfelf? ' IV. But yet he perceived that fome might fay, Particular Ordainers might have fingular lntentiom- (And I cannot tell him that as Richardus Armacha– mu, and abundance more thought Biibops and Pref ... ·byters to be ejJ~fdem o -rdinis, fo did Jacob~-ts Arma• , . ehanm of lace, and Biibop Downame and many_ other Biihops, and declared that Presbyters had Power of Ordination, but for Order fake it i11ould not be without the Bifhop, fave in cafes ofnecef.. fity.) To this he faith, [ '" That the Ordainers "moll be p'refumed to do according to the corn• ~' mon fenfe of the Church and Canons.] But lYhat if they declare the contrary? As Bifhop Ed~. · ' Reinolds ·openly· declared that he Ordained Pref· bycers into the· fame Order with.'Bifl1ops, whd were but the prime Presbyters; and that he was . of .Dr. Stillingfieet's Judgment, tbat no Form of Government was Jure Di7.!ino necejfario. . c Saith he, [Pag. 487. ·"The ~aw Is ttlway chari· 'table to prefitme that every Man intends 1".4 becomu "'him to intend: (Very good.) But it's prudent to "' prefume his a[fual Intention not from what others do ''think.. will become him, no nor from what wilt reaDy . , become him in the ]Hdgment of God.- Therefore -· . ·- , -' --- ~· •
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