Five disputations of church-government and worship

(Argument 3.) Ordination by Archbishops is not necessary to the Being of Ministers or Churches.¹ Our English Bishops were indeed Archbishops: therefore Ordination by them is not Necessary —] It is not the Name, but the office that is pleaded Necessary.

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Sect. 29. And for the Major, I think it will not be denied. All that I have to do with, Protestants and Papists, do grant the Validity of Ordination by Bishops. And for the Minor, it is easily proved. The Bishops that are the Governors of many Churches and their Bishops, are Archbishops. The Bishops of England were the Governors of many Churches with their Bishops: therefore they were Archbishops. The Major will be granted. And for the Minor I prove it by parts: 1. That they were (by undertaking) the Governors of many Churches. 2. And of many Bishops.

Sect. 29. And for the Major, I think it will not be denyed. All that I have to do with, Protestants and Papists, do grant the Validity of Ordination by Bishops. And for the Minor, it is easily proved. The Bishops that are the Governours of many Churches and their Bishops, are Archbishops. The Bishops of England were the Governours of many Churches with their Bishops: therefore they were Archbishops. The Major will be granted. And for the Minor I prove it by parts: 1. That they were (by undertaking) the Governours of many Churches. 2. And of many B•shops.

Sect. 30. He that is the Governor over many Congregations of Christians associated for the public Worship of God and holy communion and Edification, under their Proper Pastors, is the Governor of many Churches. But such were our English Bishops: therefore, &c. That such Societies as are here defined are true Churches, is a truth so clear, that no enemy of the Churches is is able to gainsay with any show of Scripture or reason, they being such Churches as are described in the Scriptures. And 2. That our Ministers were true Pastors, if any will deny, (as the Papists