(2°7 ) as well ashe , and therefore had .power to Ordain. Se&. 29. If it be Obje&ed that they had too power to f)rdaix »ithoot a Bifhop I anfwer, t. Nor a Bifhop gtaoadexercitistm, without them, according to our Laws and .Cuffoms, at lean ufually. 2. Ordaining with a Bifbop proveth them to be Or- dainers ; and that it is a work that _belongeth to the order or office of a Presbyter : orelfe he might not .do it at all, any more then Deacons, or Chancellors, d-c. may. And if it be but the work of a Presbyters office, it is not a Nullity, if Presbyters do.. it without a Prelate, if you could prove it an irregisiarity. Se&. 3o. Argument i If the Ordination of the Engli(b prelates be valid then much more is the Ordination of Pref- byters, ;(as inEngland and other Reformed Churches is in ufe.) , But the Ordination of 'Englifh Prelates is valid, (1 am lure in the judgement of them:that we difpute againft :) therefore to is the Ordination of Englifh Presbytersmuch more. Se& Si.. The reafon of the Confequence is, becaufe the úngl.ifh Prelates are more unlike theBiíhops that were Thed by A.pofi:olical Inflitution or Ordination, then.theEnglilla Presby- ters are, as I have (hewedat large in the former Dilputation the Scr:i,ptureBifhops-were theLingle Paftors of . fngleChurches, perfonally guiding them in theworflaipof God, andgovernin them inpre fence, and teaching themby their_ow,n.mouths,viiiR ring their lick, adminithing Sacraments , :c. And rut!) are theEnglilh Presbyters :: But fucharenot the late En;lifh Pre. lates that were the Governorsof _ass hundred Churches, arid did not perfonally teach .them, guide them io worfhip,govern them in pretence, and deliver them the Sacratrents but wen ab.eot from .them all fave one Congregation. Theft were unliker to theScripture fixed Bifhops , defcribed by Er. B. a our Presbyters are s therefore if they may derive from thema Powerof Ordination, or from the Law that inßitu.ted them thenPresbyters may do fo muchmore. See. 3z. Argument a 2.. tfthe Ordination of Papifl Ei (hops be valid, much more is the Ordination of Englifl) Pi. byry ters fo : but the Antecedent is true, in the judgement of tbofe againt whom we difpute ::therefore the Confequent muff in grantedby themon that fuppofition. Std. 3 3.. The reafonof theCotafe:pence is,,bccaufe the Popi àfaof
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