[741 are things that theiworldly fort maybelieve more eafily than mortified and heavenly Chriftians. One teftimony more we will add for the , antiquity, and the eftirnation of many that are againft us. And that is the Apoftolicall confti- tutions, Lib, 8. cap. 4. de ordinritionibus, (having Paid before cap. 2. that Epifeopus ignorantin aut naalo animo oppletus, Epifcopus non eft. fedfafut pifopus, non a D:o f d gab hominibus promatus,) they here fay that a Bifhop muft be one that f a cundo populo ex optimis quibufque electas eft. ,o nominato placente, papules in unum Con- sregatus (nota thoufand Churchesbut one) una cum Presbyter's, atque Epifcopispufentibus Die ,Dominic° confentiat. vero inter reliquos ,princeps Epifcopus of percontetur Presbyteros ?Tatum an ipfefit quernpraeffe pet-ant ? állás annssentibus rurfus percantetur an tribuunt ei or- nes teftimonium quad dignus fit hoc magno c illuftri munere prafidendi? An que ad pietatem erga Deum pertinent relie peregerit ? .fin jura adverfus bovines f rvarit ? An domumfoam ref- que dome¡ticas reste adminifiraverit, & an vita ei peromnia honefte & laudate ad-a fuerrt ? cum vero Omnes (ìanul, non fecundurra opinione= pra- judicatam, fed fwcundum veritater teftificati fuerint, talent elfe eum, tanquarn in confpedu judicis Dei & Çhrifti, prxfente etiarn Spiritu Sansto, atque omnibus fanais & adaninifiratoriis fpiritibws,rurfiis tertio interrogent,utrum fit dignes 'tIiniféßráo, ut in ore duorum vel triumfret oanne verbum: Et curry tertiò annuerint, et d&gnuan efe affenfa fuerint, petatur ab omnibus ut pr,sbeant fïgnum ajen(as : Et libenter prabentes audiantur] We urge not this as of Apoftolicall authority, but
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