Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BX5151 .B3 1659

intereft in them , by friends or acquaintance, and them thar: will molt pleafe and humour them, and inflead of being their Teachers and Rulers, would be taught and ruled by them and do as they would have them. Order is of great Imo: ment to preferve the very being of the . Societies ordered and to attain their well - being. God is not the God of Confu- fion but of Order, which in all the Churches muff be maintain. ed : No man therefore Mould negle& Ordination without ne- cefíity : And thefe that fo negle& ir, fhould bedifowned by the Churches, unlefs they thew fufficient caufe. 41/nr-V-V-T-Wtrirrfat r? , CHAP. Ordination is not of ingof theNlinííry. ècefity to the be- Se& T. , Aving ¡hewed what the Miniflry is, r andwhatOrdination is,and how the rc, work is impofed on us and the e Power conferred , I may now come up to the point undertaken - < to thew the fin of them that Nullifie all our Minifters calling and adminiftrations except . of Rath as areordained by the Englith Prelates. And for the fuller performance of this task,I (hall do it in thefe parts. i.I ¡hall Phew that Ordination it felfby man is not of Neceffity to the beingofa Mìnif}er. a. I !hall Phew that much lefs is an uninterrupted fuccefíion ofRegular Ordi- nation (filch as either Scriptureor Church Canons count valid) ofNecefiity to the being of Church or Minif}ry. 3 .I flail (hew, that much lets is an Ordination by tuck as our Englijh Bithops nc.

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