Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 8. No Bishops are Necessary but such as were in Scripture times: But there were none such as the late English Bishops in Scripture times: Therefore the English Bishop• are not necessary. He that denieth the Major, must go further in denying the sufficiency of Scripture▪ then I find the Papists ordinarily to do: For they will be loth to affirm that any office is of Necessity to the Being of the Church or of Presbyters, that is not to be found in Scripture, or that was not then in Being: Therefore so far we are secure.

Sect. 8. No Bishops are Necessary but such as were in Scriture times: But there were none such as the late English Bishops in Scripture times: Therefore the English Bishop• are not necessary. He that denyeth the Major, must go further in denying the sufficiency of Scripture▪ then I find the Papists ordinarily to do: For they will be loth to affirm that any office is of Necessity to the Being of the Church or of Presbyters, that is not to be found in Scripture, or that was not then in Being: Therefore so far we are secure.

Sect. 9. And for the Minor, I prove it thus. If the English Bishops were •either such as the unfixed General Ministers, nor such as the fixed Bishops of particular Churches, then were they not such as were in Scripture times. But they were neither such as the unfixed General Ministers, nor such as the fixed Bishops of particular Churches: therefore, &c.

Sect. 10. Besides these two sorts of Ministers, there are no more in the New Testament. (And these a•e diversified but by the exercise of their office, so far as they were ordinary Ministers