A Christian Directory

And he that will not be cheated with a bare sound of words, but will ask them, whether by a succession of Jurisdiction, they mean Efficient Conveying Jurisdiction in the Causers of his Call, or Received ⟨p. 782⟩[…] ⟨p. 787⟩[…] ⟨p. 782⟩[…] ⟨p. 787⟩[…] ⟨p. 788⟩Jurisdiction in the Office received, will find that they do but hide their desperate Cause in Confusion and an insignificant noise. For they maintain that none on earth have an Efficient Jurisdiction in making Popes. For the former Pope doth not make his successor; And both Electors, Ordainers and Consecrators, yea, and the people Receiving, they hold to be subjects of the Pope when made, and therefore make him not by Jurisdiction giving him the power. Therefore Johnson tells me, that Christ only, and not man, doth give the power, and they must needs hold that men have nothing to do but design the person Recipient by Election and Reception, and to Invest him ceremonially in the possession. So that no Efficient Jurisdiction is here used at all by man. And for Received Jurisdiction, 1. No one questioneth but when that Office is received which is Essentially Governing, he that receiveth it receiveth a Governing power, or else he did not receive the Office. If the question be only, whether the Office of a Bishop, be an Office of Jurisdiction, or contain essentially a Governing power, they make no question of this themselves. So that the noise of Successive Jurisdiction is vanished into nothing. 2. And with them that deny any Jurisdiction to belong to Presbyters, this will be nothing as to their case, who have nothing but Orders to receive.

And he that will not be cheated with a bare sound of words, but will ask them, whether by a succession of Iurisdiction, they mean Efficient Conveying Iurisdiction in the Causers of his Call, or Received ⟨p. 782⟩〈…〉