(2,2® ) thePresbyters Tire paid diffenting Prelates areniii upon their Nemo dat quodnoWet ; which therefore we may urge upon them. And r. They cannot prove an uninterrupted Succefsion themfelves, on whom it is incumbent, according to their prin- ciples , if theywill prove their Call. 2. We can prove that they are the fucceffors of filch as claimed all their Power from the RomanVicechriff, andprofeffed to receive it from him,and hold it of him as the Catholick Head and fo that their Ordination comes from a feat that bath had many interrup ions and fo had no power of Ordination, by their Rule : For when the fucceffion was fo oft and long interrupted, New dat quod non habet and therefore all that followed mua be ufurpers and no Popes:and thofe that received their Offices from themmuff be no Officers: But the Presbyters that Ordain will give a better proof of their Call then this. Sea.6 r . Argument r 9.Where the Office is ofGods Inflituti. tn, and the perlonsareendued with Miniaerial abilitities,and are Orderly and duly defigned and feparaced to the Office of the fa- credMiniftry,thereare true Miniaers,andValid adminiarations. But all thefeare found in the ReformedChurches that have Or- dination without Prelates: therefore, c-c. TheMajor is utide- nyable, as containing a fufficient enumeration ofall thingsnecef- fary to the Being,of theMiniary. Se&. 62. The Minor is proved by parts. r . That the Office ofa Presbyter is cof divine inaitution,ïs confeffed by moa: And 1 fup- pole thofe that deny it tobe ofScripture inf i:ution,will }et have it to be Divüre:But if they deny that, yet it fufficeth us, that it is the fame officer that they calla Bifhop, and we a Presbyter; that is, the chiefPallor ofa particular Church. Sea. 63. 2. And that the perlons areduly er competenly qua lifeá. for the Minifry, nothingbut Ignorance, Fa&ion and Ma- lice, that ever I heard of, do deny. (Suppofing thehumane frailties, that make us all infufficient gradually for thefe things) The Ignorant that know not what the Minif}erial qualifications are, do judge as carnal intereft leadeth them. TheFa&ious rail at all thatbe not oftheir mind. Grotius thought the opinions of the Calvinits made them unfit materials for the Catholick Edifice that by his Pacification he was about to frame. So do molt other Se&s, reject thole as unworthy that fuit not with their
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