Cz ) rn tting to it,with many ofthem,wemuff feem to confent to their Principles ( thatall other Ordination is Null, and the Churches are no true Churches that are without ir. ) But Presbyteries Or- dain not on fuch dividing terms. 9.We hear not ofpeer fo much care in the Prelates Ordinations in thefe or former times, as the Presbyteries ; I could give fome inflances even of late of the great difference, which I will not offend them with expreffing. to. Mott of them that we hear of, Ordain out of their own Dioceffcs, which is againft the ancient Canons of the Church. t r. Some of them by their Do&Rrines and their Nullifying all the Reformed Churches and Miniflry that have no Prelates do fhew us that if they had their will, they would yet makemore lamentable deftrutaive work in the Church then the hotteft per. fecutors oftheir late predeceffors did. For it is plain that they would have alhtheMinillers difownedor colt ow,that are not for the Prelacy. And what a cafe then would this land (and others) be in?(Ofwhichmoreanon.)So that wehavereafon to fear that thefe are deftr9}ers and not faithful Paflors. I fpeaknot ofali, but only atticguilty : For again I fay,we very much Reverence fuch Learned, Worthy men as Bifhop Morton, Bifhop Brown- riq, and fomeothers let furvivingare. tz.The Ordination byPrelates, as things nowEland, endangereth mens liberty in the exercifeof the Miniftry,by force things in the Manner which I (hall not mention: Review the raft that 1 Paid before in Cap. 5. and 6. and then judge, Whether he that in thefe dayes is Or- dained by a Learned Grave Presbytery ( and perhaps where a City Paftor is Moderator or Prefident,and many of the Ordain- era are the fixed Prefidents or Bithops ofa Parochial Church, having a Presbytery where they prefide,) I fay, Whether fuch be not feparated to the Miniftry in themoil orderly way that is now to be found exiflentì and come not in at the door that God would have them to enter at. Seel. 75. It is ftrange that chofe men ( among the Papifls ) that allowof the Cardinals choofing a Pope, and exercifing fo much Government as they do over all the Chriflian world, and all this under the name of Presbyters of Rome , fhould yet be againfi Ordination by filch Presbyters as are indeed Parochial B ifhops,and accule it to bea Nullity. I fee not how thefe things cohere. Gg
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