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…

In this fourth answer, I am confirmed by Blondellus a man entrusted, and set apart by the national Synod of the reformed Churches of France, for writing and handling of controversies. In his Apologiâ prosententia Hieromini, pag: 383. Replying to Bellarmine who would enervate Cyprian's testimonies (for the peoples right to choose their Ministers) by this evasion which now I speak to, saith, Nec pu•idum in gravi Scriptore commentum ferendum, populum habere potestatem eligendi & suffragium ferendi, quia potest dicere siquid noverit boni v•l mali de ordinando, & sic testimonio suo efficere ut non eligatur: quasi vero is eligendi & suffragium ferendi potestate ⟨p. 28⟩praeditus eaque usus dici debeat, qui id tantum prestat, quod omni electionis & suffragii jure absolute carens praestare (quandocunque libet) potest, autoris quisquam adeo duri reperiatur ut infidelium pessimos quicquid boni vel mali de ordinando noverint dicere, & sic testimonio suo ut nō eligatur efficere posse negare audeat, habe•unt scilicet ex adversarii hypothesi aequo cum sidelibus jure eligendi & suffragium ferendi potestatem. 5. Though nothing be objected against the mans doctrine or life, yet if the people desire another better or as well qualified, by whom they find themselves more edified then by the other, that is a reason sufficient (i•a reason must be given at all) and it is allowed by Danaeus in 1. Tim: 5. 22. and by the first book of discipline in the fourth head, 6. It being condescended upon in the Parliament of Scotland that his Majesty with consent and advice of the Estates, should nominate the officers of Estate. The Estates of Parliament were pressed to give a reason of their disassenting from his Majesties nomination, but they refused. And I am sure consenting or not consenting in a matter Ecclesiastical, ought to be as free, if not more free, then in a matter civill.

In this fourth answer, I am confirmed by Blondellus a man intrusted, and set apart by the nationall Synod of the reformed Churches of France, for writing and handli•g of controversies. In his Apologiâ prosententia Hieromini, pag: 383. Replying to Bellarmine who would enervate Cyprians testimonies (for the peoples right to choose their Ministers) by this evasion which now I speak to, saith, Nec puidum in gravi Scriptore commentum ferendum, populum habere potestatem eligendi & suffragium ferendi, quia potest dicere siquid noverit boni vl mali de ordinando, & sic testimonio suo efficere ut non eligatur: quasi vero is eligendi & suffragium ferendi potestate