Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 54. Otherwise, if the Dissenters will stand to their answer, we shall from their own grounds infallibly overthrow their cause thus. It is a greater work to Baptize then to Ordain or Confirm: therefore he that may Baptize, may Ordain and Confirm. Just as making a Presbyter is cum praecisione, and in respect to the terminus a quo, a greater work then Consecrating or making a Bishop; so Baptizing is cum praecisione and in respect to the terminus a quo, a far greater work then Ordination; ⟨p. 216⟩the one making a Christian, and the other a Minister of a Christian. See Aquil. in Scotel. in 4. sent. d. 7. q. 2. pag. 816. of Confirmation.

Sect. 55. It is only the Minor therefore that will hold dispute, which I prove from the well known words of Hierom to Evagrius (which Bishop Usher told me he alleged to King Charles at the Isle of Wight to this end, when he was asked by him for an instance of Presbyters Ordaining) [Quod autem postea unus electus est, qui caeteris praepone•etur, in schismatis remedium factum est, ne unusquisque ad se trahens Christi Ecclesiam rumperet. Nam & Alexandriae à Marco Evangelista usque ad Heraclam & Dionysium, Episcopos, Presbyteri semper unum ex se electum, in excelsiori gradu collocatum, Episcopum nominabant: quomodo si exercitus Imperatorem faciat: aut Diaconi eligant de se, quem industrium noverint, & Archidiaconum vocent.] Presbyters then made the first Bishops at Alexandria.

Sect. 55. It is only the Minor therefore that will hold dispute, which I prove from the well known words of Hierom to Evagrius (which Bishop Vsher told me he alleadged to King Charls at the Isle of Wight to this end, when he was asked by him for an instance of Presbyters Ordaining) [Quod autem postea unus electus est, qui caeteris praepone•etur, in schismatis remedium factum est, ne unusquisque ad se trahens Christi Ecclesiam rumperet. Nam & Alexandriae à Marco Evangelista usque ad Heraclam & Dionysium, Episcopos, Presbyteri semper unum ex se electum, in excelsiori gradu collocatum, Episcopum nominabant: quomodo si exercitus Imperatorem faciat: aut Diaconi eligant de se, quem industrium noverint, & Archidiaconum vocent.] Presbyters then made the first Bishops at Alexandria.