An answer to two treatises of Mr. John Can, the leader of the English…An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English…

And when you peruse the testimonies alleged, ¹be judge your self, whether you did not grossly mistake, or abuse your Reader, when you cite the Rhemists, as if they pleaded for the Parochial election of a Pastor, as only lawful.

And when you peruse the testimonies alledged, ¹be judge your selfe, whether you did not grossely mistake, or abuse your Reader, when you cite the Rhemists, as if they pleaded for the Parochial election of a Pastour, as onely lawfull.

1. 1Rhemists annot. in Joh. 10. §. 1.Rhemists annot. in Ioh. 10. §. 1.

As for the Assumption, It is true, the Ministers of the Church of England are not ordained by the particular Congregations, where they administer, nor is it necessary to a true and entire calling, that it should be so. That they be not approved of the particular society, is false in many of them: for they are chosen by their consent, to be their Ministers, though not absolutely to the Ministry it self. And in case they be not so called, it is a maim and defect, ¹which should be reformed, whether it ⟨p. 39⟩be through the ignorance of the people, or the Laws of the Kingdom, or the pride and covetousness of them that thrust themselves into that calling, or neglect of Patrons, or what else soever: But this maim doth not make a nullity of their calling, nor the Word and Sacraments dispensed by them to be ineffectual. For in every Church where the doctrine of salvation is soundly and entirely preached and professed, the calling of the Ministry is for substance true and lawful. The Nonconformists therefore in reproving the abuses of the Ministry and yet holding communion with the Church of England in the ordinances of worship,