yet were not any of their adminifirations taken to have'been Null. Sect. 3 r. Argument 9. If the Minifiration or Governing as of Warping Princes may be Valid, and there need no proof ofan uninterrupted fuccefsion to prove the validity, then is it to allo in the Miniflry : But the Antecedent is certain; therefore, cec. The Validity of theconfequence from the parity ofReafon I (Ball manifell anon. Se&.3z. Argument io. If an uninterrupted Succefsion of Canonical or true Ordination be Neceffary to the Being of the Church, Miniffry and Ordinances, then Rome and Englandhave loft their Miniftry, Churches, and Ordinances. But the Con- fequent will be denyed by the adverfaries; therefOre foaltomuff the Antecedent, if they regard their (landing. Sect. 3 3. Though this be the Argument that 'I have the great- ell advantage to prefs the adverfary with, yet becaule I have made it good already in two or three other writings (inmy Key for Cathol:cks,and mySafe Religion, and Chriflan Concord) I (hall fay but little of it now. But briefly this may fuffice: I. For the Church ofRome, if eitherHerefie, Infidelity, Sodo. mie, Adultery, Murder, Simony, violent intrufion, ignorance, impiety, want of due election, or of due confecration, or plura- lityof Popes At once,.can prove an interruption oftheir fuccef. liion,.I have (hewed them already where its proved ; But ifnone ofthere prove it, we are fafeour felves. Set`(. 34. But Groats, (in Difctaf. Apolog. Rivet.) pleads for them, that if any intercigon have been made at Rome, it bath beenmade upfromother Chnrches.JAnfw. I. That is not proved, but nakedly affirmed. z. Norwill it ferve the Papills turn, that mull have all Churches hold fromRome and her fuccefsion, andRome from none, nor to be pascht up from their fuccefsion. 3. De faa5lo the contrary is certain : For r. Thofe other held their Miniflry as from the univerfal Head(hip ofthe Pope ; and there- fore had themfelvestheir interruptions in the former interrupti- ons ofRome (as being but her members:) and therefore were not.capabie themfelvesof repairingofher breaches,z. The fuccef- fors of the illegitimate Popes (fuch as depofed Eugenins, (j-c. ) and menas bad as they,have continued the fucceflion : And tl e Bifhops that were confecrated by power received from the ille- gitimate
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