The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

showeth that really the chief Pastor of a Church is a Bishop, whatever they call him. But I have so largely proved in my Treatise of Episcopacy, pag. 231, 232, &c. that our questioned Ordainers were scripture Bishops, and that those now called Presbyters Ordained long after, that I must not repeat the same things here again. IV. Those that are in Orders may confer Orders: Ordinis est Ordinare, as Usher was wont to say; As Physicians make Physicians, and Philosophers make Philosophers, and Generation propagateth the Species: And our Church consenteth to this. 1. In that Presbyters must concur in Ordination by Imposition of hands, which is an act of authority and collation. 2. In that the Convocation hath a greater power, even Canon making; and that Convocation consisteth half and more of Presbyters, and the Canons Excommunicateth all that deny it to be the representative Church of England. But Presbyters have the power of Order (as Bishop Carlton de Jurisdict. proveth it commonly acknowledged) equal with Bishops. pag. 7. And the Church of England in King Aelfric's time (ad Wolf. in Spelman, pag. 576. l. 17.) Affirm that Bishops and Presbyters are but one Order. V. Those may ordain validly whose Ordination is more warrantable than that of Roman Bishops (for our Bishops own theirs ⟨p. 29⟩as valid and ordain them not again when they turn Protestants): But the Presbyters that Ordained here fourteen years, did it more warrantably than the Roman Bishops. Ergo, 1. The Papists Ordain men to a false Office; to be Mass-Priests: But the said Pastors ordained none but to the same office that Christ instituted. 2. The Papists have their power of Ordination from the Pope, whose own power and office in Specie is a false Usurpation: But it is not so here, where the ordaining Pastors were lawfully called. 3. Papists Ordination enters them into a false Church in Specie (a pretended catholic Church headed by the Pope); but our Pastors entered them into no Church but Christs. 4. Papists make them take sinful Oaths and Conditions before they Ordain them. But these Pastors (at least that imposed not the Covenant) did not. If yet any will nullify the Reformed Churches and Ministry and their Ordination, and not the Papists, we may understand what their Mind and Communion is. VI. That Ordination is valid which is less culpable, than many Diocesans: But such is that in question.

sheweth that really the chief Pastor of a Church is a Bishop, whatever they call him. But I have so largely proved in my Treatise of Episcopacy, pag. 231, 232, &c. that our questioned Ordainers were scripture Bishops, and that those now called Presbyters Ordained long after, that I must not repeat the same things here again. IV. Those that are in Orders may confer Orders: Ordinis est Ordinare, as Vsher was wont to say; As Physicians make Physicians, and Philosophers make Philosophers, and Geneation propagateth the Species: And our Church consenteth to this. 1. In that Presbyters must concur in Ordination by Imposition of hands, which is an act of authority and collation. 2. In that the Convocation hath a greater power, even Canon making; and that Convocation consisteth half and more of Presbyters, and the Canons Excommunicateth all that deny it to be the represensative Church of England. But Presbyters have the power of Order (as Bishop Carlton de Iurisdict. proveth it commonly acknowledged) equal with Bishops. pag. 7. And the Church of England in King Aelfrik's time (ad Wolf. in Spelman, pag. 576. l. 17.) Affirm that Bishops and Presbyters are but one Order. V. Those may ordain validly whose Ordination is more warrantable than that of Roman Bishops (for our Bishops own theirs