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

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.

§. 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 shew.

§. 33. To conclude, To the Being of the true Relation of a Bishop or Presbyter, is necessary only, 1. The Subject, which is a Qualified Christian man, sufficiently notified and offered. 2. The Fundamentum Relationis, Christs Law or Charter giving him his power and obliging him to his work. 3. The mutual consent of Pastor and flock in the Relation to a particular Church, is partly Dispositio subjecti, and partly as it is Gods means, a modus fundandi or conditio tituli. 4. The Terminus of one ordained to ⟨p. 218⟩the gathering of Churches sine titulo or not to any particular Church, is objectively first men unconverted to be called, and next men converted to be edified: and as Effects, the work to be done and the good to be done by it. And in those ordained to particular Churches, it is the work and the effect on them. 5. The Correlate is, 1. Christ to whom we are related as his Ministers, as the efficient of our office; 2. The people to whom we are related as the end; and that 1. we are Ministers to the world to be converted, 2. To the Universal Church to be edified, 3. and mostly to particular Churches to be guided. 6. The Relatum then is, such a person Authorized and obliged to Teach, Worship and Rule under Christ the Prophet, Priest and King of the Church the foresaid flocks or Christians to the foresaid ends.