The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…

§. 28. 5. And even Popes have been taken for Popes upon Election before Consecration: And Arch-bishops with us have no superiors to Consecrate them, but such Inferiors as promise them obedience at their own Consecration.

§. 28. 5. And even Popes have been taken for Popes upon Election before Consecration: And Arch-bishops with us have no superiours to Consecrate them, but such Inferiours as promise them obedience at their own Consecration.

§. 29. X. To the tenth question, There be some called Erastians who hold the King to be so mixta persona like Melchizedek, as that he is also the chief Priest, and hath the chief power of Ordination, and that he might administer the Sacraments if he would, and that his Appointment is an Ordination, which the people are bound by reception of the person to consent to. There are others that think that though the investing act must be performed by a Bishop, yet he is bound by the Kings choice and command to do it, as a Minister of God and the King. But as I never saw either of these well proved, so very few comparatively receive them, and therefore they will never unite the Churches. And Christs giving the power of the Keys himself to the Apostles and their Successors in the Ministry, seemeth to me to contradict them. Sure I am that Christs Church hath not thus been founded or edified: And yet Magistrates have a great and honourable part even in the Government of the Church, I speak not for all those Popish Councils and Canons which nullify all Ordinations of Bishops either chosen or presented by Civil Rulers or Great men that are Secular; nor of those that pronounce even a Pope an Usurper that is so introduced: But of the Councils and practice of the sounder ages that were still against this.

§. 29. X. To the tenth question, There be some called Erastians who hold the King to be so mixta persona like Melchizedeck, as that he is also the chief Priest, and hath the chief power of Ordination, and that he might administer the Sacraments if he would, and that his Appointment is an Ordination, which the people are bound by reception of the person to consent to. There are others that think that though the investing act must be performed by a Bishop, yet he is bound by the Kings choice and command to do it, as a Minister of God and the King. But as I never saw either of these well proved, so very few comparatively receive them, and therefore they will never unite the Churches. And Christs giving the power of the Keys himself to the Apostles and their Successours in the Ministry, seemeth to me to contradict them. Sure I am that Christs Church hath not thus been founded or edified: And yet Magistrates have a great and honourable part even in the Government of the Church, I speak not for all those Popish Councils and Canons which nullifie all Ordinations of Bishops either chosen or presented by Civil Rulers or Great men that are Secular; nor of those that pronounce even a Pope an Usurper that is so introduced: But of the Councils and practice of the sounder ages that were still against this.