A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and…

2. Suppose [Greek or Hebrew] were applied to the people,¹ I see not what can in reason be said against Vasquez, ²who saith, it will follow only they were created by the consent of the people,³ and a man more to be respected then Vasquez, Fran. Junius saith, that lifting up of the hands may well be meant of Paul and Barnabas their hands. See also Tilen, Calvin, Beza and Bullinger. Ordinary Election ⟨p. 240⟩(saith he) is from this commended, and this form of rite of lifting up of the hands was borrowed from the Grecians, who gave suffrages with lifted up hands. However the peoples free election is hence authorized, which form was used in Cyprian's time,⁴ Quando ipsa (plebs) maximè habeat potestatem, ⁵vel eligendi dignos sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi, quod & ipsum videmus de divina authoritate descendere, ut sacerdos plebe present sub omnium oculis deligatur, & dignus, atque idoneus publico judicio ac testimonio comprobetur. It is nought that Bellarmine saith, they had not jus eligendi, power of choosing, but jus ferendi testimonium devitâ ac moribus, power to give testimony of the life and conversation of the pastors chosen, but good man he seeth not that this is a power of Election, by Cyprian's testimony, and no power of choosing, which is a contradiction, and so saith Theodoret, avouching this to be the mind of the Council of Nice in an Epistle to the Bishops of Alexandria, ⁶and the first general Council at Constantinople. Only from the time of Frederick the ij. who died, an. 1300. were the people excluded from the power of choosing Pastors and Elders,⁷ and this was the deed of Gregory the ix. as Krantzius reporteth. Vasquez defendeth Illyricus in this, whom Bellarmine refuteth,