[6o] Iffue, and both appeal to the fame Or- dinal, as a decifive Proof. Mr. N's Affertion Page 82, is in there Words. " Thefi f rft Reformers believed " BUT Two Orders of Church-Men in " Holy Scripture, viz. BISHOPS and " DEACONS." Thefe very fame firft Re- formers, in the very fame Ordinal, he refers to, make the following exprefs Declaration. Preface to K. It is evident unto all Men, diligent- Edward'sOr dînai, ly readynge Holy Scripture and aunci- cnt Autours, that from th' Apoftles Tyme there have been THESE ORDERS of Minifters in Chrifle's Churche, BI SHOPPES PRIESTES andDEACONS. Without flopping for one Refle Lion, let us goon to his next Affertion, which runs thus ; " The Form of Ordaining a Priefl " and a Bebop is the fame." Here we have Recourfe to the fame Ordinal, and find therein Two Forms, one for the Prieft, and the other for the Rifhop, as diflinó from each other as the Forms of a Deacon and a Priefl. The Bìfhop is confecrated by an Arch- bifhop and Bi/hops ; the Prieft ordain'd by a Bifop and Presbyters. The Title of the one Form is The Form ofordain- ing ofPriefls; the Title of the other is T'he Form of Confecration ofan Arch- bi¡hop, 20 Rift. 7. 64.
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