Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 12. The Minor is undeniable, and seen de facto, that many of our Ordainers are such Pastors of City Churches, and that of two sorts: some of such Cities as have both the Name and Nature of Cities: And some of such Cities as have truly the nature, but in our English custom of speech have not the name: such as are all Corporations, in the several Market Towns of England.

Sect. 12. The Minor is undenyable, and seen de facto, that many of our Ordainers are such Pastors of City Churches, and that of two sorts: some of such Cities as have both the Name and Nature of Cities: And some of such Cities as have truly the nature, but in our English custom of speech have not the name: such as are all Corporations, in the several Market Towns of England.

Sect. 13. Argument 4. Those Pastors that have Presbyters ⟨p. 202⟩under them, have power of Ordination: But very many English Pastors at this day have Presbyters under them: therefore they have Power of Ordination: By Presbyters I mean not men of another office, but gradually inferior in the sa•e office. The Major is proved ad hominem from the Concessions of the Dissenters: For (though I rarely meet in their disputations for Bishops, with any Definition of a Bishop, yet) This is it that they most commonly give us as the Essential difference of a Bishop, that he is one that is over Presbyters. Yea this ag•eeth with their higher sort of Bishops that they say were in the Church in Ignatius days, when subject Presbyters were instituted: and therefore those Pastors may ordain that are of that higher sort of Bishops.

Sect. 13. Argument 4. Those Pastors that have Presbyters ⟨p. 202⟩under them, have power of Ordination: But very many English Pastors at this day have Presbyters under them: therefore they have Power of O•dination: By Presbyters I mean not men of another office, but gradually inferiour in the sae office. The Major is proved ad hominem from the Concessions of the Dissenters: For (though I rarely meet in their disputations for Bishops, with any Definition of a Bishop, yet) This is it that they most commonly give us as the Essential difference of a Bishop, that he is one that is over Presbyters. Yea this ageeth with their higher sort of Bishops that they say were in the Church in Ignatius daies, when subject Presbyters were instituted: and therefore those Pastors may ordain that are of that higher sort of Bishops.