( IaI) THE FIRE OF HELL ? NOT THAT hell WHICH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THREATEN TO US ; BUT EVEN OF ONE THAT IS FAR MORE GRIEVOUS.] Forgive thewords, myLords; They are not mine but Chr3foflome's : or ifyou will not forgive the citing of them, I will bear it as he did the like. Only I will abate you in my prognofti cation, or fentence, that far forer hellfire than the Scripture threatneth, fup- poling this will be (harp enough, even for the moll difperfing, filencing per- fecuting Prelate; and imputing thofe words to honeft Ch0follome's vehement Oratory. And Ile tell you what went next before thefe words, [And they do not only take in the unworthy ( into the Prie(lhood ) but they call oat the worthy: For as if theyhadagreed both ways to (poil theChurch of God, and thefirfl cáufe were not enough to kindle the wrath of God, theyadd thefecond, or werfe, to the former. For I judge it equally peflilent to drive out the Profitable, and to take in the unprofitable which certainly they do, that the flock of Cbrifi may from nopart tither find confolation, or be able to take breath ] Owhat would this manhave laid had he lived now in England t C. H A P. X L Argument 3. From the defirullion of the . order. ofPres -. byters of Divine Inflitution, and the Invention of a new order ofSub halfPresbyters in theirfed. ARGUMENT III. THe officeofPresbyters in(lituted by the Holy Ghoffcontaineth an Obligationäná' Authority to Guideby Dottrine, Worfhip, and Difcipline the flocks committed to their care : But the office of et Diocefane, being one only BPop over manyfcore or hundred Congregations, isdefirutlive ofthat office ofPresbyters, which containetb- an obligation andauthority to Guide by Dottrine, Worfhip, and Difei line, (or theexercifi of the Churchkeys) the flocks committed to their care. Therefore the affice'of f tcha Diocefane ofthe office ofPresbyters inffitutedbythe Holy Gbofl. The Major isthus proved by the Enumeration of the As which contain: thegeneral office, and by the proof of the General power extending to thole Ads.: viz. a. They
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