Bithópsare more unlike to the Scripture Bifhops, and moretines; pableof ordaining,then the Presbyters ofthe Reformed Churches are. 1òr z . Thehapift Prelates profefs to receive their Power from a Vice-chrifl, at leaf} woad exercitium, media confe rendi, which Proteflant Presbyters d9 not. z. The Papift ffhops profefs themfelves Paflors ofa new Catholick Church which is headed by the Papacy as an effential part; and which Chrift will not own (as finch :) But fo do not the Proteflant Presbyters. 3. The Papifl Prelates Ordain men to the falfe Of- fice of turning Bread into the Body of Chrift by the way of Tranfubflantiation, in their Confecration, and offering it as a Sacrifice for the quick and dead, and delivering this as thevery Body of Chrifl, andnot Bread to the Communicants, and per- fwading them that it is Inch, and holding and carrying it to be Worfhipped by them with Divine Worfnip, and the like : But the Procet&ant Presbytersare Ordained , and do Ordainothers, to that true Office of a Presbyter or Pallor, or Bithop which Chrift bath inf}ituted. 4. The Papift Prelates have abundance of falfe dofrines, and pratices in Worship, which the Proteflant Presbyters have not. ;. And theyhave no more to thew for a Power of Ordination, then our Presbyters have : fo that thefe, with many the like confederations will prove,that if the Papifis Ordination be Valid, that of the Proteflant Churches byPref_ byters is fo much more. And doubtlefs, they that plead fora fucceffion from the Papift Prelates, do hold their Ordination Valid. Set. 34. Argument i 3 . If the Protel}ant Churches that have noPrelates be true Churches (in a Political fenfe, ) and the Ordinances among them valid, and to beowned and received, then are the Pallors of thofe Churches true Pallors,: though they have no Ordination but by Presbyters. But the Antece- dcnus true : therefore fo is the Confequent. The reafon of the Confequcnce is clear, and granted by them that we havenow to do with : Becaufe the Paflors are effential to the Church as Political, and the faid Ordinances of Publike worship, (as the Lords Supper,) and Government, cannotbe allowable without them, nor fuck as the people fhould fubmit to or receive. This therefore we may take as granted. Sta. 3s. And for the Minor, that the Proteflant Churches are
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