( 125 ) youthe ChurchGovernours ? Is all this contention that you may have the Keys alone, without the parìfh Minifters ? And is this the fruit of all your Government, that the. common Church members are fo mad, fo bad, fo un- traélable, that they are not fit to be free Confenters to them that are to Teach and Guide them to falvation ? Who then is thisChurch Ruineand Abomina-- tion long ofbut your felves, who have and only will have the Keys ? Have . you not fine Churches and members, that are not fit to choofe no nor con fent to their own Guides ? Why do you not take care that the Churchesby difcipline may be better contlituted ? As none fhouldbe Pallors who are not, fit for the duty of Pallors, fo none fhould be members who are not fits for the duty of members. It's excellent Government inded to keep fuck. in the Church as are unfit to be there, and then fetch an argument from. their unfitnefs for their negle6t of their duty, and your depriving themof their power ? As, if you fhould choofe none but ideas (or moll fuch) to be. Jury men, and then argue thence, that theyare unfit for fogreat atrufl, and fo. the people mutt lofe their liberties. 6. There are among the ignoranter fort ofthe people, ufually divers fobei andgood men, and the reflufe much to hearken to them. Obj.But what if the peoplewill not confent toany but a Heretickor intolerableperfon? Anfm. a.. The former anfwersferve to this : You do fairly, to keep fuch people in. the Church? BLit as the Foreigner wondered in Henry. theEighth's days, to fee atonce force hanged for beingPapitts, andTome burnt for be- ing Proteflants, and cried out Dii boni quomodo gentes hic vivant! So it is fuch another cafe to fee at once the fame Prelates forcing the unwilling into the Church and to the Sacrament, as if this would or could fave them (if their Church be falvation) in defpight of them , even on pain of undoing; and perpetual imprifonment ; And yet Excommunicating and calling out thofe that are willing to flay in;. As ifConfent werea mark ofan aliene and a re-, probate, and unwillingnefsthe mark ofworthinefs. 2. Such as you here defcribe are not fitto bemembers ofa. Church. If they will not Confent to Church priviledges and duties, they fhould be with- out . the doors. And you may force them to bear Teaching whether they arewilling or not ; : But you cannot make them Godiynor: bring them to heaven, nor give them right to Church Communion.andSacraments whether: theywill or. not. So muchof Elefuion and Content. 2. Moreoverthe Ordination differeth from that of Gods inflitution.. For, Presbyters are now Ordained commonly neither by Archbifhops, Bithops or Presbytersof Chrifts inftiitutiotr (in their way. ) r. The Bithops themfelves profefs that they. Ordain not as Presbyters.. For they fay fuch haveno power of Ordination. 2. They are not Bifhops of Chritls inflitution as is before proved; but ofanother fpecies, which . half themfelves confefs to be but humane. 3. They are not Archbifhops, becaufe theyhave no Bithops under them. And fo having not their power ofOrdina- tiooas Officers ofGods making, they havenq.powet.frotn him to Ordain.. Obis
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