(2.02) under them, have power ofOrdination : But very manyEng- lifh Paftors at this day have Presbyters under them therefórc they have Power of0 -dination : By Presbyters I mean not men ofanother office, but gradually inferiour in the fame office. The Major is proved ad hominem from the Conceffions ofthe Diffen- ters : For ( though I rarelymeet in their difputations for Bi- fhops, with any Definition ofa Bifhop,yet ) This is it that they moll commonly give us as the Effential difference ofa Bifhop, that be is one that is overPresbyters. Yea thisagrecth with their higher fort of Bithops that they fay were in the Church in Igna. rims daies, when fubjedt Presbyters were inflituzed : and there- fore thofe Patiors may ordain that are of that higher fort of Bifhops. Sett. 14.. The Minor is notorious : Many of our Pallors in Market Towns andother large Parifhes havea curate with them, in the fame aingregation, and one-or two or more Curates at feveral Chappels of cafe, that are in the Par;fh. And thefe are under them 1, De fajlo being chofen and brought in by them, Ruled by them,andpaid by them and removedby them. 2.De theBifhops and Lawsofthe Land allowed this. Sedt.15 . Argument 5. The fisted or fixed Prefident ofaPref. byterie mayOrdain with his fellow Presbyters ) But manyof our Pariíh Pallorsare the fixedPrefidents ofPresbyteries:there- fore they army ordain. TheMajor I take for granted by all that hand to the Ordinary defcriptions of a Bilhop : For the fisted Prefident ofa Prahyterie,is not onlya Bifhop,in the judgement .Forbes, Bifhop H,all, Bifhop VAer and fuch other,but isin- deed the PrimitiveBithop in their judgement, and fuch a Bi- Mop in whom they wouldriß fatisfled , and do propofe fucb fortheChurches Peace, Sea. 16. And the Minor is notorious : For L. In themof1 of our ordered Churches there is a Presbyterie of Ruling Ecclefi- aftiek Elders, 2. In many therearedivers preaching Presbyters (whichmay fatisfie them that are againfl rum ruling Elders ) tas I Mewed before. And if thefe benot inferiour to the chief Pallor in Ecclefiallical Degree, yet they are his Compresbyters, and be is ( in all Parifhes that I know where Curates or AIN- intsare) their flated Prefiient or Illoderator,f0that we have in ail fucbCongregations(amrdingtó the dottrine9f the Biihops rheas:
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