A second admonition to the parliament

When any parish is destitute of a pastor / or of a teacher / the same parish may have recourse to the next conference / and to them make it known that they may §10procure chiefly from the one of the universities / or if otherwise / a man learned / & of good report / ¹whom after trial of his gifts had in their conference / they may present unto the parish which before had been with them about that matter / but yet so / that the same parish have him a certain time amongst them / that they may be acquainted with his gifts and behaviour / and give their consents for his stay amongst them / if they can allege no just cause to the contrary: §20for he may not be sent away again / which is so sent to a parish / except a just cause of misliking / the cause alleged being justly proved against him / either amongst themselves in their own consistory / so that he will appeal no further for his trial / or else in the next conference / or council provincial / or national / unto which from one to another he may appeal / if he find himself clear / and if he give over / they may proceed as afore for another. And when such an one is found / to whom the parish must §30give consent / because there is no just cause to be alleged against him / the next conference by whose means he was procured / shall be certified of the parishes liking / whereupon they shall amongst themselves / agree upon one of the ministers / which shall be sent by them to the same parish / and after a sermon made according to the occasion / and earnest prayer to God with ⟨p. 15⟩fasting according to the example of the scriptures made by that congregation to God / ye it would please him to direct them in their choice / and to bless that man whom they choose / he shall require to know their consent / which being gram ted / he & the elders shall lay their hands on him / ²to signify to him that he is lawfully called to that parish to be pastor there / or teacher. Now / for as much as I have made mention of a pastor / and a §10teacher / of a consistory in each parish / of a conference / and of a council provincial / and national / I will as briefly as I can declare / what each of these meaneth / and what the use of them is. There is required in every well reformed church these two things: