The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…

This question there is moved because of our Brethren, who think. 1. If ordination of pastors by pastors, be so necessary for an ordinary calling to the Ministry, and if Election of people be not sufficient, though they want pastors and Elders then Luther and our Reformers had no calling, for they were called by the Pope and his Clergy, for saith ⁿRobinson when there be no […] Church-officers on Earth to give ordination, we must hold ⟨p. 206⟩with Arians, and expect new Apostles to give ordination; neither can a true, pastor go and seek a calling from a false pastor. Hence observe carefully the following distinctions, to obviate both papists cavillations and our Brethren's doubts.

This question there is moved because of our Brethren, who thinke. 1. If ordination of pastors by pastors, be so necessary for an ordinary calling to the Ministery, and if Election of people be not sufficient, though they want pastors and Elders then Luther and our Reformers had no calling, for they were called by the Pope and his Clergy, for saith ⁿRobinson when there be no 〈…〉 Church-officers on Earth to give ordination, we must hold ⟨p. 206⟩with Arrians, and expect new Apostles to give ordination; neither can a true, pastor go and seek a calling from a false pastor. Hence observe carefully the following distinctions, to obviate both papists cavillations and our Brethrens doubts.

1. nRobinson Justif. p. 119.Robinson Iustif. p. 119.

1. Distinct. That is. 1. Properly extraordinary, which is immediately from God, without any other intervening cause; so Moses his calling, when God spake to him out of the Bush to go to Pharaoh and command the letting go of his people, was extraordinary, for, both the matter of the calling, and the persons designation to the charge was immediately from God Luther's calling this way was not extraordinary, because he preached no new Gospel, nor by any immediate calling from God.