( 190 ) CHAP. VI. Ordination at this time, by EnglifhPre- lates efpecialb, is unnece ary. Se& 7: Efides what i.faid agan1t the Necef- fity of fuch Prelatical Ordination in it feif, I conceive that more may be laid againft it as things new fland from leveral accidental rcafors,which make it rot only unnectflary but finful,to the moft. Sea. 2 As i .The Obligation that was uponus from the Law of the Lqnd is taken off ( which with the Prelates them- (elves is no fmall argument when it was for them ) So that we are no further now obliged, then they can prove us fo from Seri- pture Evidence ; and how little that is, I have (hewed before. The EnglifhPrelscy is taken down by the Law ofthe Land : we are kit at Liberty from humane Obligations at lee. Se& 3. lfanymaniày,thatitiJ4nunI,wfu1 power th4t isath svade thole Laws bywhich Prelatic/11 Government is taken slow. I anfwer, r. It is loch a Power as they obey themfelves, anl therefore they may permit others toobey it. They hold their caves and lives under it, andare protetted and ruled by it; and profers fubmiffion and obedience,for the generality of them. And when another Species ofGovernment wasup, that commanded men to take an engagement, to be true to the Government as tfl,:b1:fhed without a King andHoule of Lords, when our Con. (daces refuted that Engagement as unlawful) t he generality of
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