705 / 846
Numb.
IL
"ITT ENDIX.
having thofe Tokens which.
fhe is
bound to judge by
as
probable, mull
needs have
the Benefit
of
his
Miniftry'in their
way
of
Duty
;
for
God
rciluireth
no Duty
in
vain
t
As
alfo becaufe
nemini debetur palm
ex
aliena
..
culpa,
qua
ta10
éfb.
Novi whe-
ther we
fhall'difpute
de
neceftate
ordination';
ad
vfioiam
veram
dy legitinium
proprie
ÉP
primario
fic,diúam,.
er
inforo
Dei?
Or
Only
as
ad
Oficium analogicum ficundario
b
minas
proprie
in foro tantum
ecclefia:
fie dit7um?
is
to
be
confidered.
How
fat your
Senfe will
concur
I
know nor,
but
in
refpeet
of
both thefè do
I
held my former
Negations; Yet further, before
i
either anfwer your Arguments, or determine
of
the
Senfe
of
our Qùellion,
it
is
very neceffary
that
the
end
of
our
Enquiry
be
underflood, which
in'order
mutt
go before
the
means.
I
take
it
for granted, that
you do not difpute
this
quefion
as
neceffary to be determined in order to our
Affö-
elation, beforeyou can join with the prefent Miniftry
:
Or
yet
as
neceffary
to the
Determination
of
that further Queftion, whether
thofe are true Miniflers that
and
not Ordained
by Bifhops
?
and thofe true
Organized
Churches
that
have onlyfuch
Wafflers?
for
if I thought
this were your end,
i
would difpute
many other Que-
Rions
grit;
before we carne
to
this ;
and
try
firft
whether
you could prove that
the
Presbyterian Churches
cannot produce
a Succefiion
of
true Ordination, on the
fame Grounds
as
the Epilèopal
for the main.
But
I
fuppoht
your
Ends are thine
other, and in
fpecial thofe
mentioned in your Paper
t
I
conjedture
that I
¡hall
near
-
eft approach
your
Senfe,
if
I
flare
the
O
ellion
thus ;
Whether an Ordination by
Ecclelallical Men, having
¡Mt
Authority thereto,
be
in
all
Times
and Cafes fined
the Apofties
of
abfolute
Neceffity
to
'the
very being
of
the Minifterial Ofiìce, both
coram
Deo,
&
coram
Ecclefâ
?
and
confequently
an
uninterrupted Sacceflïon
of
filch
Ordination
he
of
the
fame Neceffity
?
For
if
I
Ihould
put
the
Qirefion
about Im-
poGtion
ofIlands,
or
de modo
altquo
ordinatili; I
know not
but
I
might
tuffs
of
your
Senfe
on one Side; and
on
the other,
if
I
fhoüld
extend
is
to
all
Ordination,
whe,
they by Magiftrates
or
others:
Your
Firft Argument
I-fappofe
1hot.ld
be formed
thus: That
which
the
.Englilh
Bifhops
thought
neceffary
to prove
againft
the
Papifts,
that
is
neceffary
to
be proved againft them
:
But
the English Bilhops.thought it
neceffary against
the
Papifts
to prove the
Non-interruption
of
'their
Sueceffïon
in
juft
Ordination Er-
go,
Refj,.
r.
Concedo
totem
:
It
was neceffary to prove
it
againft
the
Papifts
arguing
ad
Hominem,
becaufe
it
is
the
way
of
fuller Coovi&ion and
Satisfa
&ion when
a
Mari
can confute
an Adverfary
on
his owt tGrhuhdss. -It will
much fhorten the Difpute
when
we thew them,
that
though we
fhouid grant
the Neceffity
of
fuch
Succeifion;
yet
we need
not
grant the Nullity
of
our Calling.
z.
I deny that the English
Bi-
lhops
much
lefs
the Church of
England
did
ever judge
is
neceffary any farther
than
ad
Hominem
i
I.
Becaufe it
is
apparent that they do ordinarily in their
Writings
£peak
againft
the Papills
fupp:ofed
Neceflity of
Ordination,
as
I
-instanced
out
of
lotne ofthem inmy
Book.
It
is
known
to
bea Point wherein the Proteftants
have
commonly oppofed the
Papifts.
a.
it
is
known
to be but
the later declining
Gene
ration
of
Bifhops;
fuch
as
Montague, 'Land, and
their Confederates,
moR
in
King
Charles
his
Days, very
few
in King
yames's,
and Farce
any at
all
in
Queen
Eieza-
feth'e
that
do
join
with the
Papifts in pleading the Neceffity
of
Succeffion
:
Even`
fùch
Men-as
were
as
zealous againft
Queen
Elizabeth's
Epileopal Proteftants,
as
againft the Papills,
at
krill many
of
them.
3.
The
reih
do exprelly
mention
Suc-
ceflinn, and confute
the
Fable
of
the
Nag's-Head Ordination in
Cheapfide,
to prove
the Papifts
Slanderers
i
So
touch
to
your
Minor.
g.
If
thatwill net terse, I deny
your. Major:
All
is
not
neceffary
that they thought
neceffary
:
Proteftants
pretend`.
not to
Infallabiliry in
Controverfals,
Many more,
perhaps ten
to one at
leaft,>
of
the
English Clergy hekhic not neceffary,
tittles,
as
aforefaid.
Ad
a".
Your fecotayArgument hath all
the
Strength in
it,
or rather
thew
of
Strength
firit
we
mutt
heeds
díftinguifh
of yourTerms (Mediately and
Immedi_
ately). A
ConRitution may
be
fìid to
be from
Chrilt
mediately, either
in
Re
fpe& to
a
mediating
PeiIon,
or
to
force mediating Sign only; Allò it
may
be
faid
to
be
mediante perfena;
n.
when the Perfon
is
the
caufe
totai,
fubordinata
confiitu=.
ends,
as having
himfelf received the
Powerfrom God, and being
as
from
himfelf
to convey
it
unto Man:
a.
Or
-when
the Perron
is
but
Caufa per accident.
g.
Or
when
he
is
only
Cauf
five
qua nail,
vet
querenua impedementa
removit, vet
lumen*"'
eje, Atlione, flint
conditioner
neceffçrie.
And
SO
I
anfwer,
i.
Immediately
in
the
ffrit
abfolute
Seofe
6-
exclndendo perbbnar
&
re,,
no Man
ever
had
any
Right commini-
cated,
or Duty impofed on
him by God,
unlefs
perhaps
the
immediate Imprefi,
or
fupernatutal Revelation
of
tine
Holy Ghoft to
fòme
Prophet or Apoffle Might
be
field'
to
do
this.
Mufe himfelf
bad
time
Ten
Commandments'
written
in
Stone,
which
were