the,end of_thethapter) do it. There is but one db.i a in AbaPta toOrdain; '(though numerous Bithops,whohavenot the Generative faculty ; which Spi- pbanius makes to be the difference between a Bithop and a Presbyter, that the onebegets Fathers and the other but Sons : Their Countrey was converted by an Eunuch.)It would bea.notable difpute whether all the relibe trueBithops or not ( I thinkYea ; the Prelatills mull think Nay.) And yet Briertrood faith that Abaffïa (after all its great diminutions) is as big as Italy, France, Spain,,land Germany. And loth net the Pope govern per alios yet far more, and pretend to govern the whole Chriltian World ? while he fendethone to Goa,another toMexico, (andO;iedo to Abaffla, would they but havereceised him.) O'bj. But he bath other Bithops under him, therefore he is not ejufdernfpe- ciel as a Diocefe. dt f :p. But the Abuna bath no Ordainers under him. And theBifhop bath Chancellors, Deans, Arch-deacons, Surrogates, Officials, and fometiaies in the days of old had Suffragans too, underhim. ( QuJl. Was a Diocefe then, One Church, or two ?) And what ifa Patriarch orPope put down all Bithops under him, and exercife his power only by other forts of officers ? (They that can demife, grant, let, what parts they pleafe of their own office, may devifeenow. ) And feeing it would net alter thefpecies, what if it fhould pleafe the King and Parliament to put down all theBithops of England fave One? I hope the Bithops would not take that to be againft-:the Canon of í64.o. noragainfl the Oxford Oath `( of never endeavouring to Confine or dicer the Church Covernment] (if it could have beenpall to be taken by.the Parliament) Becaufe thefpecies isnot altered : And they tell us Nonconforeniffs to drawus toSwear, that they mean butihefpecies. I make no doubt but at the rates of our prefent Ordinations, One.Bithop or Abuna with Chaplains chow, may Ordain Priefts enow, (and too manyofall confciencè) for all the Kings Do- mniniorís ; andmay fileuce preachers enow, and may fet up Chancellors, Sur- rogates, and Arch-deacons enow to do theprefent work. And it's pity that the land fhould be troubled with fo many when one would ferve. I confefs I would either havemore or feever had jmy with. And as for my Minor propofition, let him that thinketh it wanteth proof, whenhe path contìderedwhat is beforefaid, and howperfonal prefent Commu- tíion in all Gods Church-worfhip,differeth from the Communion of affociated Congregations by meffengers, &c. think fo full, if he be able fo egregioufly to err. But I mull not fo°lta"e oUr Prelatifis. I know that it is the common trick ofSophifters, when they cannot make good an ill caufe, to carry it into the dark, or hart a new controverfie, and then they are fafe. A Papitt will wheel about into the wildernefs or thickets of Church hiítory, and ask you what names you can give, ofyour Religion in all Ages, that one propositionof your Syllogifin may contain much of a Rolfe load or a Cart load of Books, and then .I trowhe hath.done his work, if women be the judges. And others ufe to carry the guettion a rebus adverba: And foit is in thecafe in hand. But it istnot the name ola SPECIES that (hall ferve your turn. We knowhowhard it
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