A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Lastly, I argue from the confessions of adversaries themselves, we have cited before the confession of Bilson, and of the author of the history of Episcopacy, and of Salméron, I will adde Peresius de traditionibus, who undertaketh to confute the Protestant tenet, That it belongeth to the people to elect or reject their Ministers; He argueth from antiquity, and yet in that same argumentation, he is constrained to speak for us. For speaking of the three Bishops which by the ancient Canons might ordain a Bishop, he sayeth, Verum tamen est quod Episcopi isti qui ad electionem Congregabantur, consensum expectabant cleri & populiut in concilio carthaginensi quarto refertur, qui consensus magis erat testificatio vitae ejus qui erat ordinandus, & signum quoddam expressivum ejus desiderii, quod volebat Paulus quando bonum testimonium populi dicebat expectandum ante ordinationem. Et infra. Hoc enim modo magis pretiosus esset illis praelatus, magisque amabilis, ne cogerentur inviti inutiles homines, & inter dumb perniciosos suis sudoribus alere. And Answering to the passage of Cyprian lib: 2. Epist▪ 5. he sayeth; That tho he hath not read of it, yet forte erat mos tempore ejus in Ecclesiis Hispaniarum (for they were two Spanish Bishops of whom Cyprian writs in that Epistle) ut aliqui ex populo vocem haberent, electivam. Quod vero dicit populum posse recusare indignos, etiam fassi sumus, quantum ad Electionem si indignitas ordinandi sit not a & populo perniciosa. But what sayeth the Canon law it self, Decr: part: 1. didst: 62. Electio clericorum est petitio plebis. He was a Popish Archbishop who condescended that the city of Magdeburg, should have jus vocandi & c•nstituendi Ecclesiae Ministros: Neither would the city admit of peace without this condition. Thuan hist: lib: 83. pag 85. I had almost forgot D: Field of the Church lib: 5. cap: 54. Confessing plainly that each People and Church stand free by Gods law, to admit, maintain, and obey no man as their Pastor without their liking: and that the peoples election by themselves, or their rulers dependeth on ⟨p. 24⟩the first principles of humane fellowships and Assemblies: For which cause, tho Bishops by Gods law have power to examine and ordain before any man be placed to take charge of Souls, yet bave they no power to impose a Pastor upon any Church against their wills.

Lastly, I argue from the confessions of adversaries themselves, we have cited before the confession of Bilson, and of the author of the history of Episcopacy, and of Salméron, I will adde Peresius de traditionibus, who undertaketh to confute the Protestant tenent, That it belongeth to the people to elect or reject their Ministers; Hee argueth from antiquity, and yet in that same argumentation, he is constrained to speak for us. For speaking of the three Bishops which by the ancient Canons might ordain a Bishop, he sayeth, Verum tamen est quod Episcopi isti qui ad electionem Congregabantur, consensum expectabant cleri & populiut in concilio carthaginensi quarto refertur, qui consensus magis erat testificatio vitae ejus qui erat ordinandus, & signum quoddam expressivum ejus desiderii, quod volebat Paulus quando bonum testimonium populi dicebat expectandum ante ordinationem. Et infra. Hoc enim modo magis pretiosus esset illis praelatus, magisque amabilis, ne cogerentur inviti inutiles homines, & inter dum perniciosos suis sudoribus alere. And Answering to the passage of Cyprian lib: 2. Epist 5. he sayeth; That tho hee hath not read of it, yet forte erat mos tempore ejus in Ecclesiis Hispaniarum (for they were two Spanish Bishops of whom Cyprian writs in that Epistle) ut aliqui ex populo vocem haberent, electivam. Quod vero dicit populum posse recusare indignos, etiam fassi sumus, quantum ad Electionem si indignitas ordinandi sit not a & populo perniciosa. But what sayeth the Canon law it selfe, Decr: part: 1. dest: 62. Electio clericorum est petitio plebis. He was a Popish Archbishop who condescended that the city of Magdeburg, should have jus vocandi & cnstituendi Ecclesiae Ministros: Neither would the city admit of peace without this condition. Thuan hist: lib: 83. pag 85. I had almost forgot D: Feild of the Church lib: 5. cap: 54. Confessing plainly that each People and Church stand free by Gods law, to admitte, maintain, and obey no man as their Pastor without their lyking: and that the peoples election by themselves, or their rulers dependeth on