scut off or cenfure fo many parts of the Clergy , without ever accufing them, or calling them to fpeak for themfelves or Le_:ring their Defence. 2. And if upon finch prefumptuous Cenfures you make your felves Bifhops betides the Canons, you cannot expe& obedience from thofe that you thus feparate from,; and cenfure unheard. Sea. 17. Its known that the EnglifhBifhops (as Grotiushim- feltaftrmeth) were chofen by theKing according to the cuflom here the Chapter being fhadows in the bufìnefs : And ifthe King may make Bifhops, he maymake Presbyters ;. and then Ordination is unneceffary. But if you fay that the Confe- crators make themBifhops, and not the Kings Ele&ion,.then ,Rome had many Bifhops at once when ever three or four Popes were confecrated at once ( which marrs all'fucceffion: thence dirived, ). and then if force Bifhops confecrate one,, and fome another, both are true Bifhops of one Diocefs, and many Pallors may be thus Ordained toone Church. Se&.18. And it concerneth us before we become their: fubje&s ,. to have force credible Evidence that they are fo Or- thodox, as tobe capable of the place. And the rather becaufe that fame that are fufpe&ed to be Bifhops' ( how truly I know' not) have given caufeof force fufpicion : Either by writing- againft Original fin or by owning Grosius's Religion , which what it was I have (hewed elfewbere,,) or byun- churching the Proteftant Churches , andNullifying their Mini- ftry that have not their kind of Ordination, while they take: the Roman Ordination to be Valid,and theirChurch andMi., nifty to be true,, withother fuck like.. Se&. 1g. And 6. If wefhould now., whenbetter may be had;, fubje& our felves to the Ordination and Government of the: abolifhed Prelacy, we fhould choofea morecorrupt way of ad.. miniftration and prefer it toa more warrantable way: (That this way is corrupt,is proved in the former Difputation. That a way more warrantable may be had, I (hall prove anon. ) Though fubmifíìon toa faulty way in force cafes ofNecety is excufable yet when we haveour choice,the cafe is altered. Se& 2o. And a tender Confcience teach very great reafon to fear left by fuck voluntrary fubJe&ion, they fhould incur moreover this double guilt o a . Ofall .the.hurt that this corrupt.. fart
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