( 17 ) errupted fucceftion of true Ordination then cannot the' Church or any Chrillian in it, know whether they have any true Minillerial adminiflrations, whether inSacraments Or other Ordinances. For he that cannot know that he bath a Minifter, cannot know that he bath the adminiftration ofa Minifler;) But the consequent is untrue, and againft the comfort ofall Chrifli- ans and the honour of Chrift and is indeed the very do- drine ofthe Infidels andPapifts, that call themfelves Seekers, among us. Se& 18. Argument s. Ifthe Churches and each member of them are bound to fubmit to the Minifiry of their Paftors. without knowing that they are regularly ordained, or that they havean uninterrupted fucceffionof fuch Ordination then are they quoad Ecclefiam,true Pallors to rhem,and their adminiftra tions valid,though without Ordinationor fuch a fuccellion. But the Antecedent is true, and granted byall that now wë have to deal with. Though they will not grant a known unordained man is to be taken fot aMiniher, or one whole fucceffìon bad a, known intercifion ; Yet they will grant thatif the Nullity be unknown, it freeth not thepeople from theobligation to &heir Palters. Sept. ï . Bellarmine ¡ lib 3, de Eccltfc. to. ) was fo flailed' with there difficulties that he leaves it as a thing that we cannot br refolvedof ; that our Pallorshave indeed [ PoteftatemOr dinis 7urifdiElionis ] that is that they are true Pallor,. And he faith that [ Non hademus certitude em nifi Morales quod illi fnt vere Epifcopi. _J But when he should prove it to us that there is a Moral Certainty ,heleavesus to leek and gives :ís not fo much as a ground to conjccaure at any probability. Sect. 20. But he faith that we may know that [ tome Pa(iors at leeare true : or elfe GodA.14 forfaken his Church.] f1fw. Bur what the better are we for this, if we know nor, vhich they are that arc the true Pallors, nor cannot poffibly come to know it? Sect.zr . But be faith that[ o 1 Cbrifli locum tenent, & good debemus ills, obedientiaml may be known: and thereupon he faith that ¡ Certefumuscertitudine infallibili quod i f i quo, videmusfrnt 'veri Epifcopi ei- Paflores noflri: Namadhoc non requiritur, necfi. elrs. necCharac`ler (irdinis , net Iegitima Elettio, . fed folum ut ,s-
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