A69533:604
Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IV. An uninterrupted Succession of Regular Ordination, is not Necessary.
Sect. 1. Having proved the Non-necessity of Ordination it self to the Being of the Ministry,1 and Validity of their administrations, I may be the shorter in most of the rest, because they are sufficiently proved in this. If Ordination it self be not of the Necessity which the adversaries do assert, then the Regularity of Ordination cannot be of more Necessity then Ordination itself: Much less an uninterrupted Succession of such Regular Ordination: Yet this also is asserted by most that we have now to do with.
Sect. 1. HAving proved the Non-necessity of Ordination it self to the Being of the Ministry,1 and Validity of their administrations, I may be the shorter in most of the rest, because they are sufficiently proved in this. If Ordination it self be not of the Necessity which the adversaries do assert, then the Regularity of Ordination cannot be of more Necessity then Ordination itself: Much less an uninterrupted Succession of such Regular Ordination: Yet this also is asserted by most that we have now to do with.
- 1Of this I desire the Reader, to peruse what is written by Voctius de desperata Causa Papatus, l. 2. Sect. 2. c. 21. & passim.
Sect. 2. By Regular Ordination, I mean in the sense of the adversaries themselves, such as the Canons of the Church pronounce not Null, and such as by the Canons was done by such as had Authority to do it: in special, by true Bishops (even in their own sense.)