r19 ) cvore : Tor, 3."f They may Rulewith others, when they cannot preach h others. 4. 1 heremay be appeals to thenext Synod (or Prelate if you will have it fo). Obj. VI. You would have a Priefi to he aPope in hisParilh. Anf. I can call this Objection nobetter than grofs Impudency : For, a. Its a Contradiu`ti- on: APope is aHead of the UniverfalChurch : And fo it is laying, that we make everyMini. aHead of theVniverfal Church to hisPárifh. 2. We defire more Presbyters than One in aChurch. 3. Wedelire Appeals to the next Synod and is that to be a Pope? 4. Is not one Minifter as able to Rule a Parifh, without the help of aftìftants and Synods; as one Prelate to Rulemany hundred Parifh'es, who likely is a worfe man than the Minifter ? Impudent pride will perhaps fay no. CHAP, XYI, The Màgiflrates Sword is neither the flrength of Church difcipline, nor will ferve inflead of it, norfhould be too much afed to fe- coud and enforce it. ir Hefe threeaffertions I will prove diftint9ly. r. `Die Magiffrates Sptord is not the chief Jtrength of true church difcipline. I add this, becaufe this is the Prelatifts lait Objeétion, that its true that the Keys are but brutum fulmen and a leaden fwordwithout the Magi- finites : For almofi all men will difpife it : Who will come to our Courts if they may choofe ? Who will regard our Excommunications? Do not the peo- ple now defpifethem? what then wouldthey do if they had theirwills? when we' have excommunicated the Schifmaticks, They will Excommunicate us a- gain. The greatefi Prelatifls who write tome and Beak with me, ufe thefe verywords themfelves. To which I anfwer. r. If we prove that Chrìft bath inflituted difcipline, and that for fuch noble ends asaforementioned, it is little lefs than blafphemy thus to re- proach it : As if Chrift had no more Power, Nx ifdome or Goodnefs, than to ordain fo vain and unprofitable a means, to fuch high andneceffary ends. 2. The objection doch but exprefs a carnal mind, which regardethon- ly carnal things, and thinketh as bafelyof all others, as if nothing moved them but the intereft of the flefh ; And as if Gods favour or difpleafure, and the authority of hisword and Minifters were Of no force or regarde- venwith the Churchof Chrifr. 3. The objection inviteth Kings to put down all Bithops, except Preachers
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