. rig,) "Arid Pa.43 r. [They that labourmore tokeepup the authority of Bishops, than ` toflve thepeople, when they cannot convincethe Miniferr,called by the Magt(frate, of error, doraifa queftion about their calling, (being themfelves neither lawfully ` chofen nor called)faying,whatSuffragane ordainedyou minifter? what Bifhop cal- led you ti the office? As the Prieffs by Chrift. They queffioned not his work, `which they could find no fault with , but his power--- fo thefe , where. ` they cannot byGods word defendtheir own erroure and abufes, nor diJprove our ` true do&ine, they fly to theEpircopal power andauthority, as if they did pof- `left anyfilch umblamableand lawful power,' when,they neither difcharge theof `fïce, nor have the power of true Stoops ; wherefore let no true fineere Minifter ` of Chriff, regard thebarking of theft men, but as contentwith the teffimonyof h5t `Confcience, and his calling toteach by the LawfulMagiffrate, gá on in the Lords. `workwith alacrity of fpirit.] Here he addeth the manner of their calling at Bern, by the ele&ion. of the. Paftors and confirmation of the Magiltrates, and reception of the people , that you may know what he rneaneth by the Magiflrates Call. `And p.436. having told us, that Chrijtianity fallethwhere the eleilion 'andPafloral care of the Miniffry falleth, he addeth. LBut now they that endea- vour-to put out the light of truth, hoots much of the power of 'Bishops, Arch- ` Bifhops, Metropolitanos, Patriareks, and the RomanPope ; where if you urge `them, to it, theyare not able to prove by any. truth of divine inftitution,.that fo `much as this ()ft minillerial power. (of Miniffringin the Church)is in thofe ` Bishops, Arch-hithops, Metropolitanes,Patriarckr or Pope, that is, in thefe Church `Lords (Satrapes). Let them prove that thefe, are trae Minilters of Chrift. `I. ftrive not about Epifeopacy;(limply) in it felt, whether it be to be numbred `withChriffstrueMinii/ter:: But the controverfie is whether fetch Bishops asour age ` toopatiently'telerateth are to.be numbred.with Units true MiniJters ; It isgreat- ' lyto be feared, left in thedayof judgnentthey will bear that dreadful word `fromGod, Depart fromme ye workers of. iniquity, I know younot.] Lhave,added more of Mufcrtlus thendircalyconcerneth the point now inhand, becaufc Iwould.take him all together. And beca.uf the Helveti- ans are not accounted Presbyterians, I add Beellinger, Decad. 5. Serm. 3. p. (niihi)377.378. and 'Sum 4. q.38'. Where he lheweth that Diocefan Eifnops havenot the foie power of or jination, that Presbyters and Bi- fhops were the fame and had the fame work, and the horrid abu's'es,, that . carne into the Church by the degenerating of Epifcopacy : And Decad. 5. Serra, ro. p. 49ií.. ` that..in latter Ages, Prelates, and Bifhps,fnatching by ty= ` ranny that power of excommunication, to themfelves which before was ufed by `the Paffors in Synods in common, andfacrelegioufly toting it againft the fief tution, had turned a wholeftme medicine into deadly poyfön,and made itabo- `minable to good andbad... But L:may not:reciteall. Wgundus was no Presbyterian, bang fuperintendent. of PMMagdeburgfi bell, and after of IYifmaria,.and after of iene, and after Bifhop Ponteranien.. f r;, ncr yet Math.Iudex. yet go they the fame way as may be teen, Sy- A a 3 tag,ne
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