213 ) whichwefind atfe tobt inferted into thr Canon of bent w win eslrcbbifhópof Yorkin the Jaxon- tiínes'and oferwar& into the body of the Canon-Law it felf. True it is that in our Charcb this kind of Presbyterial Go- vernment hash been long difasfed, yet feting it frill pref./rah that everyPallor bath a right to rule the Church( fromwhence the name ofRellor a!`fo was gives at rids unto him) andto adminifler the Difcipline of Chrifl , as well as to difpence the Dotirine and Sacraments, and the refiraint of the excr. ci(e of- that right proceedeth only from the cuffom now re- ceived in tba`s Realm ; no man can doubt but by another Law ofthe Land , this hinderance may be well removed l Se&.46.And indeed the flream of Antiquity,and the Authors that are principally reflect on for Epifcopacy , are full againft . them that deny theGovernment ofthe people to the Presbyters; And it is the principal mifchief of the Englifh Prelacy , this to degrade (or road exercitium to fufpend at !eaft) all thePref- byters from their office : Not as it is a denying them any part of their honour (chats not to be much regarded;) but as it is a difcharging them of their work and burden , and confequently leaving the Churches ungoverned. And for the Government ofPresbyters themfelves, in Cyprians dayesthe Bilhop did not, could not, Ordain, or cenfure any Presbyter without his:Cler- gy and Councils have decreed that fo it fhould be. Yeaand the plebs univerfa alfo was confulted with by Cypriot. Se&. 47. And now I come to the Major of my Arrgument which I prove thus. Either Ordination is an a& of theexercife of the power of the Keyes , or ofCome other power : Bat of no other power : thereforeof the Keyes. If it be the exercife ofanyother power, it iseither ofa fecular , power, or an Eccte- fiaflick : but neither of thefe, therefore of no other. Not 'óf another Ecclefiállick power for there is no Eccleiaftical pow.. er, (at leaft which.Ordination can be pretended tóbelong to) but the poweroftheKeyes ;not of a fecular power; for that be longeth not to Minifiers,nor is it here pretended Se&48. And I thinkit will appear that the power ®f Bap.; tizing, and judging who (hall be taken, for Chriflians,and who nor, and thepower of adminiftring the Enchain and Euche- riflical a&ions in the Chnrcb,is as great as-ittis of Ordination, ; cfmially
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