A second admonition to the parliament

How is that saith §20another? Thus I say. First / let no one minister meddle in any cure save his own / but as he¹ is appointed by common consent of the next conference / or counsels (as afore) provincial or national / or further if it may fall out so / general of all churches reformed: A conference I call the meeting of some certain ministers / and other brethren / as it might be the ministers of London / at some certain place as it was at Corinth / or² of some certain deanery / or deanries in the country §30/ as it might be at Ware / to confer and exercise them selves in prophesying / or in interpreting the scriptures / after the which interpretation / they must confer upon that which was done / and judge of it / the whole to judge of those that spake / and yet so / as some one be appointed by all / to speak for them / as they shall amongst them selves agree what shall be spoken / which ⟨p. 30⟩thing was always used among the Apostles / one to speak for the rest / which conferences may sometime be more general then other sometime / as occasion of the Churches may require / to call the brethren together. At which conferences / any one / or any certain of the brethren / are at the order of the whole / to be employed upon some affairs of the church / which they shall show to be needful for the same. So was John & Peter §10sent by the Apostles to Samaria / to confirm³ Philips work. So was Paul and Barnabas sent from Antioch to the business appointed them by the Lord / and yet so (which I would⁴ have well marked) that the holy Ghost said to the congregation: Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them / he might have called them forth without these words to them of the assembly / but that he would show how he approved of that order / and the more the order is commended / that he would