Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 30. 7. Moreover, if the failing of Ordination, should deprive the world of the preaching of the word, or the Churches of the great and necessary benefits of Church Ordinances and Communion, then one man (yea thousands) should suffer (and that in the greatest matters) for the sin and wilfulness of others, and must lie down under such suffering, lest he should disorderly redress it. But the consequent is against all Justice and Reason: Therefore the Antecedent is so to.

Sect. 31. In a word, it is so horrid a conclusion, against Nature, a•d the Gospel, and Christian sense, that the honour of God, the fruits of Redemption, the being of the Church, the salvation or comfort of mens souls, must all be at the Prelates mercy, that a considerate Christian cannot (when he is himself) believe it: that it should be in the power of heretical, malicious, or idle Prelates to deny God his honour, and Christ the fruit of all his sufferings, a•d Saints their Comforts, and sinners their salvation, and this when the remedy is before us, and that it is the will of God that all these evils should be chosen before the evil of an unordained Ministry; this is an utterly incredible thing.

Sect. 31. In a word, it is so horrid a conclusion, against Nature, a•d the Gospel, and Christian sence, that the honour of God, the f•uits of Redemption, the being of the Church, the salvation or comfort of mens souls, must all be at the Prelates mercy, that a considerate Christian cannot (when he is himself) believe it: that it should be in the power of heretical, malicious, or idle Prelates to deny God his honour, and Christ the fruit of all his sufferings, a•d Saints their Comforts, and sinners their salvation, and this when the remedie is before us, and that it is the will of God that all these evils should be chosen before the evil of an unordained Ministry; this is an utterly incredible thing.