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That the envious man having sowed Tares, this Church is unhappily fallen into many corruptions, diseases, and factious sects, almost all censuring one another: no part of it is perfect: That the Papal part is in Doctrine, Worship and Government one of the most corrupted parts! Yet so far as their diseases or errors nullify not their profession of Christianity, they are parts, though leprous. And therefore though they are the most uncharitable and schismatical part, as they cut off or unchurch all the Christian World save themselves, yet being as Christians united to the rest in the common faith, their Baptism & Ordinations are not nullities as they invest men in the ⟨p. 58⟩Christian Society and Christian Ministry; though that part of them is a nullity which engageth men in a schism and in sin. That the Ministerial power is not the gift of Man, but only of Christ, who by the Charter of his recorded Word, giveth the power and the obligation to that person who is duly chosen and called thereto: As the Kings Charter giveth the power to the Mayor of a Corporation duly qualified and chosen: that the ordainers are but partly Judges of due qualification, and partly Ministerial Investers, and not at all the Donors of the Power: that ordination is for order sake needful, when it may be had to keep men from being Judgers of their own sufficiency: But order being only for the thing ordered, (as the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath) is not necessary against the end. That there is no necessity that a Superior must ordain: but as the College of Physicians, Philosophers, &c. make Physicians, Philosophers as approved, so may equals in the Ministry: Do not Bishops make or consecrate Bishops. If this were not so, who makes the Pope? If he did not pretend that his power is given him immediately from Christ, he must grant that there are some men above him to give it him, and so he is not the Sovereign. If they say that the power of Popes (and Kings) is given by the whole body (the Church) ⟨p. 59⟩he is then no Pope: for it's known that three parts of the Christian World are against him. If he will say, None are the Church but those that are his party, any sect or rebels may say the like, and appropriate authority to themselves.

That the envious man having sowed Tares, this Church is unhappily fallen into many corruptions, diseases, and factious sects, almost all censuring one another: no part of it is perfect: That the Papal part is in Doctrine, Worship and Government one of the most corrupted parts! Yet so far as their diseases or errours nullify not their profession of Christianity, they are parts, though leprous. And therefore though they are the most uncharitable and schismatical part, as they cut off or unchurch all the Christian World save themselves, yet being as Christians united to the rest in the common faith, their Baptism & Ordinations are not nullities as they invest men in the