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

But yet if this Bishop or Presbyter be ordained by a heretic or excommunicate man of a lower order, ⟨p. 217⟩to this or that particular Church, caeteris paribus the people may see reason to refuse him; and consent to another that hath a better ordination; (unless in a Church so corrupted that the Ordainers and Excommunicators authority is not to be regarded and help up, (which hath too oft fallen out.) But regularly none ought to ordain a man to any Church before the election or consent of the flock, though it may serve ad esse officii, if the consent come after.

But yet if this Bishop or Presbyter be ordained by a heretick or excommunicate man of a lower order, ⟨p. 217⟩to this or that particular Church, caeteris paribus the people may see reason to refuse him; and consent to another that hath a better ordination; (unless in a Church so corrupted that the Ordainers and Excommunicators authority is not to be regarded and help up, (which hath too oft faln out.) But regularly none ought to ordain a man to any Church before the election or consent of the flock, though it may serve ad esse officii, if the consent come after.

But if three Bishops ordain one man to be Bishop of such a Church, and three others ordain another to the same, that is the true Bishop quoad esse, which the Church to which he is ordained doth accept, by their consent before or after. Yea though it were the worser party of Bishops that ordained that man.

§. 32. As to the point of successive-right-ordination uninterrupted from the Apostles, I hope afterward in due place to prove, that to the Church universal such there hath been de facto in all the necessary parts: But that to any particular Church, or any individual persons ministry, such uninterrupted course of ordination in being, notice or proof, is utterly unnecessary: and that the Papacy hath no such to show.