Numb. lI, f! PP E N D I X. 47 ingof the what the Word contained in it that made theError : For if I had un- ` derflood that it contained two Propofitions : r. ThatMen thus and thus qualified s 'pall preach the Word, or it is the Duty of Men thus and thus qualified to preach ' the Word. And then 2. That [Men thus and thus qualified, ordirdagratis,.fhail be let apart to it, or Ihall be appointed to Preach] I never- had made 'this ` Animadverfion, but íhonld have acknowledged a formal,Anfiver : But Iunder: `hood it only thus, thatMen thus and thus qualified Thaft he appointed,. that is, it istheir Duty, beingfo and fo qualified to Peek for Ordination, or it is their Du- ' tyDing' fo and fo qualified to be appointed to the Work : which L thought ` might be true, and yet theyno Minifters till they were de fàtto fetaparr.Buttnow ` very weltunderltanding, that it may well bear both Prbpofitions, and the fire ` coming up clofè to the Queftion in hand, .I ¡hall willingly.retraet all that:I Paid `upon that Point , and acknowledge a formal Anfwer , which I think. 'may fatisfi'e. But whereas you fay, that by difciaiming my lair Argument I denied.Impoliti- ` on'of Hands to be fo neceffary, and by urging fomething hereabouts did feem ' to forget what I raid anon. I anfwer, I didnever intend to deny Impofition'of Hands'to he of neceffity to legitimate Ordination. l raid indeed, an Argument 'drawn front thence againff theQueftionin Hand was fiivglous. But I did not in- ' tenet to difparage the thing it felt any:farther than Relatively to the Queftion then in debate. And whereas you fay, that Fatting was not nted.; I anfwer, that `theft, i ever was any Ordination but Fatting was prevfeus to, it by the Appoint- ' ment of the Church in Ember-Weeks, which were conFandy, kept by the Sons of ' the.Church, though negteáted by others, and this! thitik might lèrve, though it was northe fame Day, and I believe youwill fay fò too. But in thele things nei- '- thet!'will I. beboifterous till!'am better informed what may be the.fùbftantial or `effenrial Parts of Chti$s Ordinances; and what not; which I confers I have not yet fuch an Idea of; So as to fay in every Ordinance what is efiential, and what `not. ltd. ;". Whereas you wonder that upon fuch flight Grounds I fhould fo re- ' naèioufly Rand to part of my third Argument. I anfwer, that I did not intend to inforce that the Cafe of extream inculpable neceflity wag ¢hé Seiaries Cale: ` But fuch a Necetlìty as did inevitably intangle them in their Ihvaf on of the Mi. niftry, which though it'doth-no ways make them lawful Minifters, yet it makes them'ioconfutably lawful Minillers, till the Opinions which firf made them (Oa- rate beproved to them to by erroneous ; my meaning is this : I:think if this Hy- ' pothefis be true [that in cafe of extream Neceffrty Men may, and tome mutt en- ` ter irregularly into theMiniftry] it h not poflïble to convince an Anabaptili that ` his Invafon of the Mkiillerial Work is unlawful, till we can drill convincehim that Anabptifmis erroneous. Now hereupon jf thought. their Hands was much llrengthened over what it would have been had that Hypothefis been falte. For ` then we could. incontroulahly have cleared their invalìon of the Work, though ' they had in the mean timeremained unconvinced of their erroneous Opinion. But now if we cannot convince them of their Error, but their way Bill ap- ' pear Truth to them, then they need do no more to juftifietheirPra&tice to them- ' leaves, but borrow our Principle; and that lets them right, and fo their Invdfion is inconfutable from what they borrow from our fans. And fo though they do not juftifie themtelves to us, becaufe we think their Necefity culpable, and through their own default, yet they fofar juffifie by this very Principletheir Pm- ' dice to themfelvès, that it renders them unconfutably lawful, till we can prove and make it outplain to them, that their very Opinions are erroneous: So that ` you miftook while you thought that I intended to prove their PraFice lawful, whereas all that I intended was to thew that upon fich a Principle their Invafion became lets confutable ; and their Hands fomething ftrengthned over they could have been upon the contrary Hypothefis; by which you may perhaps f e what ` Linkof your Chain I intended to break. But enough of this, I that' now come ` to theBufinefs I firil fpake of. Firlt therefore you lay down the Epifcopal Principles, pag. 65. vio. That no ` Church is a true Church without Minifters ; and no Man a Minifler that is not ` Ordained by a Bilhop, and no Man a Bithop that is not ordained by a Bifhop lawfully called, and not deprived again of hisPower : And this Bifhop mull be Ordained by a former Bithop, and he by a former, and fò the Succefiion muff be followed up to the Apolles. Having
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