(142) CHAP. XVIII. The fourth Argument, From the ImpoJbility of their performance of the Epifcopal Office, in a Diocefane Church ; And the certain excluflon anddeftru&on of true particular Church Government, while one man only will undertake a work too great for many hun- dreds. r LI that I have raidhitherto is far (hort of this one Argument, from the notorious unqueftionable mifchiefs which the oppofed frameof Prelacy doth infer ; not probably, but certainly ; not only where Bithops are bad, but with thebeii ; not in force Churches, but in all. ARGUMENT IV. That Form ofPrelacy it not lawful and to be fworn to, which maletb the Epifro- pal Office impoffible to be performed, andcertainly de(lroyeth and nulli(leth truepar- ticularChurch Government wherever itobtaineth. But fuch is the oppofed frame. None will deny the Majorbut the Erafiians, who think that the Magifirate only is the Church Governour (which as to forcing Government is true) And they that fo think, muff needs be againft Bithops otherwife than as they are Preachersor Magiflrates. Therefore I may let them pals. TheMinor I am to prove by parts. It muff be remembred, that I have (hewed how great theDiocefes are, and that no work proper to the Office ofa Bifhop can be done by a Lay-man, or any but a Bifhop. And have prevented the pretence of doing it per alios. And now I mutt (hew more fully than in the former breviate, what the work ofa Bifhop is; And then you (hall fee whether it be not impofible. And left you think I precifely feign more work than God hath put upon them, I will take it out ofScripture and Dr. Hammonds Annotations. I. The reaching of the Flock. IL The Prieftly worfhipping of God with them. Ill. The Government ofthem by Difcipline, are the threeparts of the Bithops Office, as bath beenproved. I. The
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