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12. The eight Canon ipso facto excommunicateth all that affirm that the form and manner of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons hath any thing repugnant to Gods Word, &c:] That is, all those that hold Bishops and Presbyters to be the same Order (contrary to the words of that Book.) Which yet even the Church of England while Papists declared in King Aelfrik's Canons (see Spelman:) And all such as Thorndike, who say the People and Clergy should choose their Bishops; or that say the Peoples consent is necessary to the Pastoral Relation to them, and that the old Canons for this are in force.

12. The eight Canon ipso facto excommunicateth all that affirm that the form and manner of making and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons hath any thing repugnant to Gods Word, &c:] That is, all those that hold Bishops and Presbyters to be the same Order (contrary to the words of that Book.) Which yet even the Church of England while Papists declared in King Aelfriks Canons (see Spelman:) And all such as Thorndike, who say the People and Clergy should choose their Bishops; or that say the Peoples consent is necessary to the Pastoral Relation to them, and that the old Canons for this are in force.

13. The ninth Canon ipso facto excommunicateth the Separatists.

14. The tenth Canon excommunicateth all that affirm [that Ministers that refuse to subscribe to the Liturgy, &c. and their Adherents may truly take to themselves the Name of another Church, not established, by Law and dare publish that this their pretended Church hath long groaned under the burden of imposed grievances, by the Church of England, and the Orders and Constitutions therein by Law ⟨p. 46⟩