(I z6) Obj. By there two lafi differencesyoufeemtogive asp the Caufe to the Separatifts. Anfw. ThePrelatifis do fo 5 but fo do not we:- r. Becaufe whether the Prelates will or not, the people exportfatlo do Confent to every worthy Paftor. z. Becaufe wejudge of Pari(hMinifters. as God defcribeth them, and therefore as true Bilktops : and ccnfequentiy take the Prelates for a kind of Archbi(hops . whatever theycall themfelves. 3 And there is no honeft Mir-litter but hath the Confent of force neighbour Minifters and of the People : And though im- pofition ofhands bea laudable Ceremony, yet it is not that, but mutual.Confent of themfelves and the Paffors and People in which their external call conffteth, as is beforefaid. II. The different Correlates and Termini make different Relations. The Churches which the ancient Presbyters were related to, were true entire Churches,(however their work might be pareelled among themembers. ) But according to the Prelates platform, each Presbyter bath his charge over no Church of Chrift at all, but only over 4hundredth, fix hundredth or thou- fandth part of a Church, havingno more to do with all the reft than ifthey were ofanother Diocefe. But I come to the point intended : That they take from the Presbyter his effential Obligationand Authority appeareth, s r In general, they commonly affirm, that the Governing power belong- eth not to them; and that they are but the Bi(hops Curates : By which they mean not only that the Bithops rule them : but they fay that theBithop lothTeach all his Diocefe per alias, even by theft his Curates. And accor- dingly they have lately blotted out of their Litany [ Bifhops, Paftors, andMi- ners of the Church i and have fubftituted [ Bifhops, Prieftr, and Deacons] left the Priefts fhould be fuppofed Paftors. But they altered not the Golleet for all Bithops and Curates. And they have put out of the Office for Ordi- nation ofPriefts, Act. 20. 28. Now what a Presbyter doth in theperfon of the Bi(hop and as his inftrument, that he doth not in the diltin6t perfonof a' Presbyter: He that payeth money or deliverethpoffeffion in his Matters name, úoth it not in his own. So that if really they mean as they fay, that quoad perfonam legalem quamvis non naturalem, it be the Bithop that dothTeach and Officiate per alior, ,then no Presbyter is indeed endued with any power of Teaching, Officiating, or Ruling in theperfon ofa Presbyter, but only to be theServant and Inftrument ofthe Diocefane. 2. No Presbyterbath power to - judge whom he [hall Baptize, or whom to refufe ; but is to Baptize all without any exception that have Godfathers and Godmothers, who will but fay the words in the book. TheCanon 78. is [N'o Hinifter(hall reufi or delay to Chriflen anyChild according to the bookofCom- mon prayer, that is brought to the Church to him upon Sundays or Holidays to,be Chri/Isned Elfefufpended three monthsfrom bit Minjtry. ( Yea, that is it that pays for all.) So Can. 79. Ire is bound to do in houles in cafe ofdanger. Yet
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