(hall be,filenced (perhaps by hundredsor thoufnds) whíie the necctlìty of the Peoples Souls is undeniable, their Authority to this hinder no man from going to Pi each (turther than their violence,hindieth.) And fo by his own Rule it mule be as to Difcipline, if Difcipfiñe be a Workbelonging to a Presbyter. And as Spalatenfts faith of Corfirmati. on, the Presbyter (hould do it, though the tsi(hop forbidhim. 8. The Second Power which the Presbyter mutt receive from the Prelate for Teaching, Worshipping, and Governing the Flock, is either, t. For the exercife of it inGeneral to anyfit ptrfons, or elk for the limitationof him to fuch aparticular Flock. z. And it is either a General Licenfe or power at once given to do all his Work, or to do this of Government whenever there is caufe, or elfe if isa particular Licenfe for each parti- cular aft. r. We denynot, but that as a Phyfician Licenfed to practice, is not thereby made the Phyfician of this or that Perfon, Hofpital or City, but . have a particular Call for fuch an Exercife or Applicationof his skill. So anOrdained Minifter of Chrift hath no preparedObject onwhich to Ex- ercife a Paftorai Office, but by a particular Call to luch a Flock. But however you Cenfure our fimplicity for it, weare refolved to believe, till you faymore againft it, r. That the fame may be faid of a Bilhop too ; and therefore by your Argument, when this Bithop is fixed Ma particular Flock, he receiveth a fecond power as you call it, and fo without it bath not the power ofthe Keys any more than thePresbyter and fomutt be of a diftinft Order from the Bifhops that give him his fecond power : And who giveth them theirs? And if you rife to a Patriarch or Pope, what Superiour ofanother Order giveth them theirfecond Power ? 2. That In- ftitution or fixing a man (before Ordained) to áparticular Flock, doth not make himof another Order or Office, nor is a new Ordination; nor. is he asoft Ordained andmade of another Office, as he changeth his Flock, or receiveth anew Licenfe from the Bifhop or the King, (fromwhom I had rather have it.) 3. That the People as well as the Bifhop (if not much more) dogive theMinifter thisopportunity for theexercife ofhis Office, (as the Patient choofeth his Phyfician.) And yet it ismy Opinion that this will not prove that the People are hisGovernours, much lefsthat they give him a newOrder or Office. And of old the People chofe their Bifhops themfelves : It will be as much honour for you Learnedly to prove that there were noKings in theWorld till Bifhops made them, as to confute D. Blondels Hiftorical proof of the Peoples ancient choice of their Bi- fhops. 2. And as toa General Licenfe, I will thank the King for it, yea, or any man that bath power to hinder me, that hewill give me leave to Preach and Exercife my Office : But I do notthink that every man that doth not hinder me when he Can, doth give me power. And ifa Bifhop be fo ex- traordinary good as notto filence nor hinder a Minifter from Preaching Chrift, I do not think that this man is anUfurper in PreachingtheGofpel, M for
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