Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 6. And 4. in case that Princes (Infidels or others) should persecute Ordination to the Death: I do not find that it were a Duty to be ordained, if it would cost all men that seek it their lives, and so made them uncapable of the Ends of Ordination: (For the dead preach not) If we were all forbid to preach on pain of death, I know we should not forbear, unless our places were so supplied, that mens souls were not apparently endangered by our omission. But he that may preach without Ordination, can scarce prove it a duty to seek Ordination when it would cost him his life. Or if he will plead it in Paper, he would soon be satisfied in trial.

Sect. 6. And 4. in case that Princes (Infidels or others) should persecute Ordination to the Death: I do not find that it were a Duty to be ordained, if it would cost all men that seek it their lives, and so made them uncapable of the Ends of Ordination: (For the dead preach not) If we were all forbid to preach on pain of death, I know we should not forbear, unless our places were so supplied, that mens souls were not apparently endangered by our omission. But he that may preach without Ordination, can scarce prove it a duty to seek Ordination when it would cost him his life. Or if he will plead it in Paper, he would soon be satisfied in tryal.

Sect. 7. And 5. In case that the Generality of Bishops within our reach turn Heretics, (as in many parts of the East in the Arian revolt, when scarce seven Bishops remained Orthodox) Or in case of a National Apostasy, as in the Kingdoms of Nubia, Tenduc, and many more that by the conquest of Infidels have revolted.

Sect. 7. And 5. In case that the Generality of Bishops within our reach turn Hereticks, (as in many parts of the East in the Arrian revolt, when scarce seven Bishops remained Orthodox) Or in case of a National Apostacie, as in the Kingdomes of Nubia, Tenduc, and many more that by the conquest of Infidels have revolted.