Z ) :le: It is not the fault ofevery Congregation, or expegant of Miniftry : It is not in their power to alter Laws and forms of Government: and therefore they are bcund toenter by the fitter way that i open to them. Sea. 73. Moreover, even in England,; the Presbyteries are fitter for Ordination then the prefent Bifhops : (as to the Nati- on in general)therefore the Ordinationby Presbyteries is done by the fittell Ecclefiaftical ofcers,and is the molt regular and delire- able Ordination. Sea. 74. I prove the Antecedent by comparing the Ordina. tion of the Presbyteries and the prefent Prelates. t. I have before filmed that the Englifh Prelacy is tatore unlike the Primitive Epifcopacy, then our Parochial Presbytery or Epif copacy is ; and therefore bath 'lets reafon to appropriate to themfelves the Power of Ordaining. 2. The Ordaining Presbyters are Many, and known perlons ; and the Prelates ;w, and to the molt (andexcept three or four,to aimoftall that T am acquainted with) unknown. 3. The Presbyters Ordain Openly whereall may be farisfied ofthe impartiality and Order of their proceedings : But the Prelates Ordain in Private,where the fame E tisfadion is not given to theChurch. 4 Hereupon it is eafie for any vagrant to counterfeit the Prelates fecret Or- ders, and fay he was Ordained by them, when it is no fuchmat- ter ; and who candifprove him ? But thepublick Ordination of Presbyters is not fo eafily pretended by fuck as have it not, and thepretence is eafilydilcovered. S.The Prelates for ought I hear, a-e very few,and therefore few can have accefs to them for Ordi- nation:But Presbyteries are in molt countreyes.6.ThePrelates,as far as I can learn, Ordain Minifters without the peoples confent over whom they areplaced,and: without giving them any notice of it before hand, that they may put in their exceptions if they. diffem: But the Presbyters ordinarily require the content of the people ; or at leali will hear the reafons oftheir diflent. 7. The Presbyteries Ordain with the Magiflrates allowance, and the Prelates without and againfi them. Thofe therefore that are Ordained by Prelates ufually, ftand on that foundation alone, and want the confent of People and Magiftrates; when thole that are Ordained by Presbyteries have all. 8. Ordination by Prelates is now pleaded for on Schiftnatical grounds, and in fub- mitting
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