The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

AND this Power of Election in the people, he proves from the Apostolical Practice before insisted on. Quod postea secundum Divina Magisteria observatur in Actis Apostolorum, quando in Ordinando in locum Judae Episcopo, Petrus ad plebem loquitur. Surrexit, inquit, Petrus in medio discentium, fuit autem turba in uno. Nec hoc in Episcoporum tantum & Sacerdotum, sed in Diaconorum Ordinationibus observasse Apostolos, de quo & ipso in Actis eorum Scriptum est. Et convocarunt, inquit, duodecim, totam plebem Discipulorum, & dixerunt eis, &c.

ACCORDING unto the Divine Commands the same course was observed in the Acts of the Apostles, whereof he gives instances in ⟨p. 81⟩the Election of Matthias, Act. 1. and of the Deacons, Chap. 6.

AND afterwards speaking of Ordination, De Universae Fraternitatis Suffragio, by the Suffrage of the whole Brotherhood of the Church; he says, Diligenter de traditione Divina, & Apostolica observatione servandum est & tenendum apud nos quoque, ut fere per universas provincias tenetur: According to which Divine Tradition and Apostolical Practice, this custom is to be preserved and kept amongst us also, as it is almost through all the Provinces.

AND afterwards speaking of Ordination, De Vniversae Fraternitatis Suffragio, by the Suffrage of the whole Brotherhood of the Church; he says, Diligenter de traditione Divina, & Apostolica observatione servandum est & tenendum apud nos quoque, ut fere per universas provincias tenetur: According to which Divine Tradition and Apostolical Practice, this custom is to be preserved and kept amongst us also, as it is almost through all the Provinces.