( 180) us, No Miniftereand Churchess if theycould have done it: And till they do it; their whfperings are not to be credited. Se&. 7. Argument 2. Ifthat fort of Prelacy that was exer- cifed in England was not neceffary it felf, yea if it were fin - full,and tended to the fubverfion or exceeding hurt of the Chur- ches; then is there no Necefiìty of Ordination by fuch a Pre- lacy. But the Antecedent is true: therefore fo is the confe- quent. TheAntecedent bath been proved at large in the fore- goingDifputation. Such a Prelacy as confifleth in the under. taking of an impofsible task,even for one man to be the onlyGo vernour ofall the fouls in many hundred Parifhes, exercifing it alfo by Lay men , and in the needful parts, not exercifing it all all ; a Prelacy not chofen by the Presbyters whom they Go. vern ; yea fufpendiug or degradingehe Presbyters of all chore Churches, as to thegoverning part of their office, and guilty of he refl ofthe evils before mentioned is not only it fell unne- ceffary, but finful,and a difeafe of the Church which all good men fhould do the befi they can to cure, And therefore the effe&s ofthis difeafe can be no more Neceffary to our Miniftry, then theburningofa feaver, or fwellingof a Tympany, is ne- ceffary to the body; Se&. 8. No Bithops are Neceffarybut fuch as were in Seri- ture times : But therewere none fuch as the lateEnglifhBifhops in Scripture times : Therefore the`Englifh Bifhops arenot ne- ceffary. He that denyeth the Major,muft go further in denying thefuf iciency ofScripture,thenl find thePapifts ordinarily todo: For they will be loth toaffirm that anyoffice is of Necefíïcy to the Being of the Churchor ofPresbyters,that is not to be found in Scripture;or that wasnot then in Being : Therefore fo far we are fecure. Se&. 9. And for the Minor;I prove it thus. If the Englifh Bifhops were neither fuch as the unfixed General Minifters,nor filch as the fixed Bithops of particular Churches then were they not fuch as were inScripture times. But they were neither fuch as theunfixed General Miniflers, nor fuch as the fixed Bi. (hops ofparticular Churches : therefore, &c. Sett. io. Befides thefe two fortsof Minitiers, there areno more in theNew Teftament. ( And thefe arediverfified but by the exercife of theiroffice, fo far as they were ordinary Mini- flers
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