A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…

5. Is the Bishops power of appointing a minister no ways determinate to this or that minister? then it seemeth his mere will determineth of the particular person, without any just reason. For if there be certain causes or reasons which the Bishop is bound to follow in designing of this or that minister, rather then another, then is the Bishop determinate. The Council of Nice it self determined the authority even of Patriarchs in this case: viz. that the Elders should first nominate fit men [Greek or Hebrew]: secondly, that the people should elect or choose out of that number, per [Greek or Hebrew]: & thirdly, that the Bishop should confirm ⟨p. 21⟩the elected [Greek or Hebrew]. Socrat. l. x. p. 177. What exorbitant power is this then which our Bishops do now-a-days challenge unto themselves? All Classical Divines do consent to that which Junius setteth down, Conc. 5. l. 2. c. 6. n. 73. that no Bishop can send or appoint a Minister, sine certa ac justa ecclesiae postulatione, without the certain forechoyce of the Church: Id enim esset obtrudere, non mittere, for that were to obtrude him, not to send him.

5. Is the Bishops power of appointing a minister no wayes determinate to this or that minister? then it seemeth his meere will determineth of the particular person, without any just reason. For if there be certaine causes or reasons which the Bishop is bound to follow in designing of this or that minister, rather then another, then is the Bishop determinate. The Councell of Nice it selfe determined the authority even of Patriarches in this case: viz. that the Elders should first nominate fitt men 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: secondly, that the people should elect or choose out of that number, per 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: & thirdly, that the Bishop should confirme ⟨p. 21⟩the elected 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Socrat. l. x. p. 177. What exorbitant power is this then which our Bishops doe now-a-dayes chalenge unto themselves? All Classicall Divines do consent to that which Iunius setteth downe, Conc. 5. l. 2. c. 6. n. 73. that no Bishop can send or appoint a Minister, sine certa ac justa ecclesiae postulatione, without the certaine forechoyce of the Church: Id enim esset obtrudere, non mittere, for that were to obtrude him, not to send him.