42 4. 73 PENDI X. IVumb:I i. their Help. I donot doubt but aMan may have a funiicient Difcovery of the ' Will of Chrift calling him out to Duty,' and by Confequence giving him fithici- ` entAuthority for that Work, though he may want the regular entrance into And therefore lince I fee a way to utility the Mini(try,andto derive our Authori- ' ty fromChriff,though the Succeffion Ihould beinterrupted (though alfo in the meati ' I think all the Men alive may be defied to make full Pmof either that the Sumer f fion ever was, or ever (hall be interrupted) 1 (hall neither trouble you nor my felf any farther about a bufinefs to fo little purpofe. But frrperceding from all ` the refs of my promifedTask flail only addfomething concerning your Reply to ' my thirdArgument ; and that is this :To myQueftion that:I make in the Behalf of the Invadersof our Office, why we Clamour fo much againff them, why we give ' them not the Right Hand of Feliowlhip ? you anfwer, We do :not, we may riot give them the Right Hand of Fellowfhip, becaufe they come not into the Vine- ' yard by the Door. But I Reply from your own Principles that it is for them morally impoflible to come in by the Door, the Door to thembeing by-Provi- dencenailed up: The Men which you call Church Officers being either Tech as ' will not give them a Commiffion, or fuch as they darenot take a Commif$on ' from, as conceiving them not lawful Minifters, and becaufè they cannot have their Orders from them falv,â eonfcienriû, it becomes impo(lîble to them, Baia oin- ` ne rurpe dry iñboneftum eft impoffibile. And Co, though you fay, nothing is more un- true, yet to me, nothing teems more evident, than that the cafeof extream Ne- e ceffity is their cafe. The Anabaptilt for Example; he cannot be ordained by a Bilhop, he dare nor, becaufe he judges thevery Order to he Antichriflian : The e Presbytery, if he have arty better Opinion of them, yet they think fo ill of hint, e that they willnot give himOrders. Either therefore, though he be never fo well 'qualified for the Work, he mutt take his Call from theCompany of Brethreri, ' or he mutt take it upon his own dilcerning the Qualifications in himfelf, or he ',muff not Preach at all, though he fees the Church of Chrift havenever fo much e need of Help.Now if you fay that in fucha Cafe a Man may not bury his Ta- e lent when theChurch bath need of his Help, and he anOpportunity to give it; e but he may either take it upon himfelf, or the People may be the Judges to call e him out to it, or the Magiltrate either.. Then they have the fame Authority e which we muff have if the Succe(lion be interrupted, and the Door of theVine- ` yard nailed up by Providence: and fo their Authority feems built upon your own Principles., Now to all this ifyou fay, that it is their Error tobe Anabaptißs, and it is their Error toJudge the vifible Miniftry ofE}nglaiedto be noChurch-Offices, and that it is their Duty to quit themfelves of thefe Errors, that theymay be in a Capacity to receive Ordinations, and the Presbytery in a Capacity to Ordain, them, as you do ineffeít fay. To this I anfwer, that I think, as well as you, that c the( are their Errors, and that thefe Errors ought to be laid afide. But yet, this being raid, doth not abfolve them from the cafe of extream Necefftty which I (peak of. An erroneousConfcience binding as ßrongly as a found ; and anEr- ' rorappearing Truth, lays as greata Nece(lîty upon the Party to frame his Pra. otife to it-as Truth: And fo the Necefßty becomes (fill as importunate. Me- ' thinks this Anfwer which you give may be made by Papißs to us Prote- ' fiants, and by the Epifcopal Party to you Presbyteries, when we tell thePapißs, -` that we dare not take Orders from them, or the Presbyterian tellsthe Epifcopacy ` that they darenot take Orders from them : How eafily may the Papifts fay to us, 'it is our Error? how ferioufly may the Epilcopal fay to-the Presbyterian, it is your Error ?You create Impoflibilities and Necelîtiesupon your (elves by your er- e ronious Confciences? But if we Proteßants cannot rejéet that Necellity which lies upón us ofrefacing Orders from the Papißs : or if the Presbyterian cannot re- ' jet) the Impo(libility that lies before them of taking Orders from the Prelates. whilß their Conciences tells them they maynor. Why may not the Seáary upon as good Ground; and as jußifiable Principles'refufe Orders from the Presbyterian, and plead as ftrongly a moralImpof(rbility and a nailing up the VineyardsDoor by Providence, whilff theirConfciences tells them they may nor; and fo baulking duo( that we call Church - Officers enter as regula ly into theMinißry, or at leali ' as inconfutably as any other Men, if the*Succefiìon be interrupted? And. there- ` fore I cannot think that you have anfwered this Argument, except the two firft ' Lines contains it ; where you fay, That the belt things may be made ufe ofasOc- caliions to encourage Men in Sin, enc. becaufeI thinkthat there is much Truthin ' that, and that theInconvenience which this Argument hatla hanged upon that A( ' fertion, is but i.ncommodum per accident, which may be flattened upon molt of the Truths of God; I fuperfede likewife in that Anfwer to nay third Argument. As `for
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