[ 274] VI. But it is the Vicedeity that is his great foun: dation. Pag. 543· faith he, ['" Noru there any rea– . " fon for them to oppo[e God and (he Church tU they do " on this and other occaft .. * The Church is the Bi- " * h h :l.hops ,and Courlcil, the ons If t e Churc es AuPope '0eing Prefident. " thority be received from . , " God, then '{flhat u done by " Her, u to be prefomed to come from him,the fame way " as what u done by any mar./s Proxy is prefumed to be '' his own all: Andas what iJ done by an Inferior " Magifitate by virtue of hu Office, is prefumed to ~· comefrom the Supreme.] · This·is in Anfwer to an Objection, That [ thi Powers united by God are infepa'fable by any Humane . .Authority: llut the Power of Ordination uby Go4 united to the other Right! ofScripture Presbyters,&c.] He anfwers [If our ·Adverfaries mean, that thofo Presbyters who .had both 'thofe Powers united in them by God, could not be deprived of the one without the other,nor of any by any Humttne Authority; tl3u, ifit Jhould prove true is a cafe wherein ottr prefent Ordina– tions are not concernet}, which were not received in t haft times, ~heretn our Adverfaries pretend to prove that · thefe two Powers were infe- *Thatis,inScriptnretimes. parably united*. They may Dr. Hammond confef{etb the be 'Cparated de faeto, tho' fame : And yet we are all no 1' Minifi:ers, and have no Sathey who feparate them be to craments; nor right to Salvablame for fo doing.- If they tion, if we htve not uninterwere then united by God, berupted fucc~!Jive Epifcopal h · d b Ordin4tio.n from tho[e times. caufe t ey were umte 'Y the men whoreprefented God, why are they not difunited bJ God now w.~en men ali~ imporvered by him have Jifunite~· them ? Why (hould they not oblige God in one cafe a-s we/J .u the . ~I Readers;
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