$ The ,Reafonablertef` method in the Chriflian Church, and your Separation unneceffary. I (hall not now repeat any thing of it, but, under the prefent Argument, flan take it for grant- ed, that there was once a Conveyance, as I know there certainly was to feveral of You; and fhall endeavour to thew, That there is nothing in any of there pafages, which doth intimate this duration ofthe 1Vlinierial O, ice which you are contend.. ing for : That is, in other words, that noneof there Pa(f"ages doexprefs, or imply, that a perfon who hath Authority once given him to1liinifier publickly in aChri- flianCongregation, may not, upon fome Confiderations, lay ande the Publick Ex- ercife of his Minifiry. This is what thefe Texts muf} prove, if they prove any thing to our prefent purpofe. Ifthey do not prove fuch an abfolute Duration, and an abfolute Obligation to Minifter pub.. lickly, the Argument taken from them will lignifie nothing, but will wholly turn upon a very different point, viz. whether your Minifirations be neceJJary. And, I fuppofe that ifthefe Texts had not been thought to imply fuch an abfolute Obligation, they would not have been produced by you as containing in them an
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