Five disputations of church-government and worship

§. 16. Object. But (some will say) your Minor yet is to be denied; for this is not a way to Reconciliation. A stated Presidency will not please the Prelates that have been used to the sole Jurisdiction of a whole County, and to sole Ordination. Answ. 1. We know that the moderate will consent. 2. And some further accommodation shall be offered anon; which may satisfy all that will show themselves the Sons of Peace. 3. If we do our duty, the guilt will no longer lie on us, but on the refusers of Peace: but till then, its as well on us as on them.

§. 16. Object. But (some will say) your Minor yet is to be denyed; for this is not a way to Reconciliation. A stated Presidency will not please the Prelates that have been used to the sole Iurisdiction of a whole County, and to sole Ordination. Answ. 1. We know that the moderate will consent. 2. And some further accommodation shall be offered anon; which may satisfie all that will shew themselves the Sons of Peace. 3. If we do our duty, the guilt will no longer lie on us, but on the refusers of Peace: but till then, its as well on us as on them.

§. 17. 7. That which is lawfully practised already by a Concurrence of judgements, may lawfully be agreed on: But the Presidency (or more) of one man in the Assemblies of Ministers, is in most places practised (and that lawfully) already: therefore, &c. There is few Associations, but some one man is so far esteemed of by all, that they give him an actual or virtual Presidency, or more: why then may they not agree expressly so to do?

§. 17. 7. That which is lawfully practised already by a Concurrence of judgements, may lawfully be agreed on: But the Presidency (or more) of one man in the Assemblies of Ministers, is in most places practised (and that lawfully) already: therefore, &c. There is few Associations, but some one man is so far esteemed of by all, that they give him an actual or virtual Presidency, or more: why then may they not agree expresly so to do?