19+) them or Communion with them. We could have lived in their Communionand in the Communion of the ref} of the Proteffant Churches that have ro Prelacy.. But if by innovation, you have made fuch a chaange,asthat we muff feparate fromall theReform, ed Churches and Minifiers that have not your kind of Ordinati- on,ifwe will be yourfubjetis or be Ordained by you according, toyour grounds,its time for us to lookabout us, that we et-cape that feparation and fchifm, that you would lead us into and en. gage us inby your wa} of Ordination. Sea, r Among your felves there are many that affirm that if the Pope would have been content with his old Patriarchal Power, and principium unitatis, or primacy of Order, and . wave his Id} four hundred yearsdeterminations , or at leafl not obtrude then on other Churches ( as Bfhop Bromhall: fpeaks ) they could have held cßmmunion with him, that now cannot If Rome would have been content to be a Member of the Catholick Church , though pretendedly the nobleff, they could have owned it : But when it will be The Catholick.. Church, and feparate it feif from all the ref+, unchurcbing, all that are not fubje$ to them , and united in their Go- vernment , they then drive us further from Communion with them. Imitate then not in any degree in thisNo- torious fchilm and feparation. Be contented to be Minifiers. and Churches ; and tell not Chrift he bath none but you, and fuch as you ; and tell not. Satan , that the Kingdom of Chria is thus cut fhort, to the, honour or rejoycir:g_ of his adverfary. Sea. I3. It was not fo ridiculous as fad to me, to read in Mr. T. Ps. Self-revenger againfi Mr. Barlee, pag. 37. and Ordination called a [ " Notorious.Comce 2"ragedie, equally fad and ridiculous , which he and others lately aEled inDais- " try Church, intituled by the Altars, An Ordination of 11?iritl 6L fiert, but by manyof the 'peílators, An. Ordination of Lay. "'Preachers to be Lay preachersflill, and ( without repentance) 66 for ever uncapable of tier Pri:flhood, by being Ordainedby frith._, Pric/s as wereuncapable ofOrdani;Jg.] Thus MI P. Sea. 14. And it hems he was of the fame judgement, (.whoeve, he was , that would have abufed 13'i opVfber,by g Ving out that he, cold him that Lasfor FlolLät.a , he gqueftion- efl:a
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