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APPENDIX.
Numb. If.
for even the Ufurper fucceedeth
in
the
Office
as
a Ufurper,
and
it
is
part
of
our
ControJerfy, whether the
later (Succetfron
of Ordination)
be
of
flat
Neceffity
to
the
former (Succeflion in Office).
It
being
then the
Neceffity
of
an
uninterrupted
Succef
ion
of Ordination that
we
enquire
after,-
itmutt
be
known what wemean by
Ordination.
xn frs
n,
theWord
commonly ufed
is
but
Conflitno:
Ordination
in.
General then
is
any
Conflitution
of
a
Man
in
the
Office
of
the Miniftry.
Hlere
we mutt
diflinguifh between
the Conflitution it
felf, and
the
Madam
Conflitnendi :.
It's one
thing
to
ask
whether Ordination
be neceffary
;
and
another, whether Im-
pofition
of
Hands, or prefent Falling and Prayer
be neceffary ; yea,
or
the
Pre-
fence
of
the Perlon Ordaining
;
feting
a
Man
may be
Ordained, Conflituted or
authorifed,
per
literar
abfantis.,
and not only
per
mans
vel
verba
prafentú, whether.
this Mode
be
as
meet
as
any,
we now queftion not. Alto
its
one thing to
ask
whe-
ther
God's
Ordination
be neceffary, and another, whether Man's
be neceffary.
Alfo,it
is
one thing
to
enquire
of the
Neceffity
of the
Fa&
of
Ordaining
;
and ano-
ther,
of
the Neceffity
of
a
jufl
Authority in the Ordainer
to
do
it
;
where
it
will
be
needful to confider
what
is
of
Neceffity
to the Conflitution
of
fuch Autho-
rity,
and what deflroys
it
:
Before all
which
it
would
be neceffary
to
know
what.
the Ordainer's
Work
is,
and to what
and
how
far
his
Power
extends
r
But this L
am not now to
meddle
in.
That aDivine
Ordination
is
of
Neceffity, to the Li-
gitimation
of
our Calling
in fora
Dti,
I
grant
;
as
alfo, in fora
Confcientie
Mini
-
flrantie.
That
authoritative Ordination
of Men,
is
neceffary
Ordinie
Grritiâ,
when
it
may be obtained, and where God's Providence
¿loth
not
make it naturally,
or
morally
impoffible,
lalfo grant. That Impofition of
Hands with folemn Prayer,.
is
the moll convenient manner, and neceffary
for
the Ordainer
to
ufe,
Necef/uate
Pracepti
b
Mediiad
bene
efre
Ordinationie,
I
elfo grant.,
That
the Power of Ordain
-.
in
is
ordinarily only in
she
Hands
of
Chrift's Ecclefiaflical Miniflers, I acknow-
ledge
(whether
Bilhops
or
Presbyters we
now queflion not)
and
that it
is
notdi-
volved
to
any others, but
in
Cafe
of
Neceffity.
The
Things then
that
I
deny
are,
that
Impofition
of
Hands, or prefent Prayer, or
the
Prefence
of
the
Ordainer are
of
Neceffity
to our
Office.
That
the true,
juif
Authority
of
an
Ecclefiaflical
Or-
dainer
is
of
Neceffity to
the
being
of
our
Office
::
And confequently,
that an unin-
terrupted
Succetfion
of
Jai.,
Authoritative, Ecclefiaflical Ordination from the
Apollles,
is
of
rabfohite
neceffity
to the being
of
our Calling.
Nay,
that any
Au-
thoritative Human
Ordination
at all,
betides
the
Peoples meet
Confent
is
of
filch
abfólate, indifpenfable Necelftty
ad
rife
O(flvü
;
all this
I
deny. And my
Opinion,
is,
that
in
Cafe
of
a
failing
of
all
Ecclefraflical Authoritative
Ordination, the Ma-
giflrates
Ordination may
fuffice
ad
ejfe
Officü :
And
in
cafe
both fail,
the
Peoples
Meer Acceptance,
Confent, or Ele6tion may
fuffice,
fuppofing the Perfon meetly
qualified.
And whether
you will call this
all
of the
People
a
Conflitution, or
Or-
dination,
or
not, I
am indifferent.
Certainly
xa9isn¡p
oft
liignifies
the Conflitu-
ting; which
is
hot an
Alt
of
Government, or fuperior Authority.
But
no
Term
bath
fo
much need
of
Explication
as
the Word (Office) or (Ministry) which
is
the
1
erminua
of
Ordination. An
Office
is
a flared
Power or Authority, or
Facul-
ty with
Duty of doing certain
Works
to certain
Ends.
The
Mini(terial
Office
of
a
Presbyéer,
is
to
be differenced
ab
objetio
er
a
fine.
The
Authority and the
Duty
in
a
lawful Officer
go
together
:
Such
a one only
is
in
fen/it
primario
&
proprio
an:
Officer
:
But he
that
is
a
Ufurper,
or
bath no
lawful
Call, may
yet both
a.
Have
all
the Duty of that
Office
lying upon him, and
by his
own
Intrufionoblige him
-
felf to the
Performance, and
yet want thetrue Authority
for
performing
it, feting
he came in without
God's Call, and there
is
no Power
but
of God.
a. And he
may
have
the Name
of
an Officer, though given him but analogically, or in
f
nfie
fecundario
Fr
ecclefiaflieo.
;.
And the Church may owe him that
RefpeLt
and
Oft
fer*ance due to
a
[awful Officer
(the Reafon
is,
becaufe
it
is
one thing to know
who
is
a
truly
lawful Officer
;
as
in Matter
ofMemberlhip,
Tam bound to
ufe
ma-
ny
as
true Chriffiaus, even
all
that have
the.Profellîon of fach)
who yet
are not
fach
So am
I bound to
take
all
thofe for lawful Officers that
have the
external
To-
kens
of
filch,
feting
we cannot know any further ; though they be
notfich indeed).
4. And all
that
Man's Miniflerial Allions are
valid
to the`Church that doth her
Duty in oblerving
him,
and
yet they are
all
null
or unlawful,
and
flat Sins
to the
Performer. The.Reafón
of
the
later
is,
both
becaufe
no
Man can lawfully
do
that
which he had, no Authority
given
him
for,
and
becaufe
nemitti
ex propria crimine
de-
botúr benef:cium;
and
Ergo, his
Ufurp tion cannot
fecure him.
The
Reafon
of the
former
is,
becaufe
Duty and
Benefit go
together, and thereforethe Church that per
-
fórmeth but
her
Dury.in
taking thofe to
be
truly
called,Pallors
that
recut fo
to
be,
having