Five disputations of church-government and worship

§. 11. That the Presbyterians (of England specially) are willing to close upon these terms of a fixed Moderator, I prove, 1. By the profest Consent of that Reverend Learned servant of Christ Mr. Thomas Gataker, a Member of the late Assembly at Westminster, ¹who hath professed his judgement of this matter in a Book against Lilly. I refer you to his own words, for brevity sake.

1. 1Gataker.

§. 12. My next witness, and for brevity, many in one, shall be Mr. Geree, ¹and the Province of London, citing him in their Jus Divinum Ministerii, pag. Append. 122. the words are these [That the Ancient Fathers in the point of Episcopacy, differ more from the high Prelatist th•n from the Presbyterian: for the Presbyterians always have a President to guide their actions, which they acknowledge may be perpetual durante vita modo see been gesserit; or temporary to avoid inconvenience, which Bilson takes hold of as advantageous, because so little discrepant, (as he saith) from what he maintaineth.] See the rest there.

§. 12. My next witness, and for brevity, many in one, shall be Mr. Geree, ¹and the Province of London, citing him in their Ius Divinum Ministerii, pag. Append. 122. the words are these [That the Ancient Fathers in the point of Episcopacy, differ more from the high Prelatist th•n from the Presbyterian: for the Presbyterians alwayes have a President to guide their actions, which they acknowledge may be perpetual durante vita modo se bene gesserit; or temporary to avoid inconvenience, which Bilson takes hold of as advantagious, because so little discrepant, (as he saith) from what he maintaineth.] See the rest there.