Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

W. J. Neither Papal nor Episcopal Jurisdiction (as all the Learned know) depends of Episcopal or Papal ordination, nor was there ever interruption in successions in Episcopal Jurisdiction in any See ¹for want of that alone, that is necessary for consecrating others validly, and not for jurisdiction over them.

W. J. Neither Papal nor Episcopal Iurisdiction (as all the Learned know) depends of Episcopal or Papal ordination, nor was there ever interruption in successions in Episcopal Iurisdiction in any See ¹for want of that alone, that is necessary for consecrating others validly, and not for jurisdiction over them.

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R. B. What multiplied self-destroying answers are you driven to? 1. See here, Reader, how short a solution you have from themselves, of all their old objections about the Bishops Ordination at the Nags. head-Tavern in Cheapside, and the interruption of our Succession, and nullity of our Priesthood; now you see that jurisdiction depends not on Ordination, but may be without it. Their Pope and Bishops may have all their Ecclesiastical Government, though they be Lay-men. And may not Parish-priests have so also over the people? These Papists are more kind to the Protestant-Churches that have not Episcopal Ordination, than some called Protestants in this age are; want of Ordination nulleth not their Government. But for my part I would the Church had never known any such Jurisdiction, as is neither the Magistrates by the sword, nor given by Ordination to the Pastors, called the power of the Keys: At least I thought that it had been necessary to Popes and Prelates that they be Priests. If some as seniors among Presbyters, may be the Governors of the rest, (as an Abbot among Monks) yet sure he must be a Presbyter (or Monk) himself. I take the Priestly Office or Ministry ⟨p. 35⟩