Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 63. 2. And that the persons are duly or competently qualified for the Ministry, nothing but Ignorance, Faction and Malice, that ever I heard of, do deny. (Supposing the humane frailties, that make us all insufficient gradually for these things) The Ignorant that know not what the Ministerial qualifications are, do judge as carnal interest leadeth them. The Factious rail at all that be not of their mind. Grotius thought the opinions of the Calvinists made them unfit materials for the Catholic Edifice that by his Pacification he was about to frame. So do most other Sects, reject those as unworthy that suit not with ⟨p. 221⟩their minds. And malice (whether animated by Heresy, Profaneness or Carnal interest) will easily find faults, and unweariedly slander and reproach: But besides such I meet with none that dare deny the competent abilities of these Ministers

Sect. 63. 2. And that the persons are duly or competenly qualified for the Ministry, nothing but Ignorance, Faction and Malic•, that ever I heard of, do deny. (Supposing the humane frailties, that make us all insufficient gradually for these things) The Ignorant that know not what the Ministerial qualifications are, do judge as carnal interest leadeth them. The Factious rail at all that be not of their mind. Grotius thought the opinions of the Calvinists made them unfit materials for the Catholick Edifice that by his Pacification he was about to frame. So do most other Sects, reject those as unworthy that suit not with ⟨p. 221⟩their minds. And malice (whether •n•mated by Heresie, Prophaness or Carnal interest) will easily find faults, and unweariedly slander and reproach: But besides such I meet with none that dare deny the competent abilities of these Ministers

Sect. 64. And 3. That the persons are Orderly and duly separated to the work of the Ministry is thus proved. Where there is a separation to the Ministry by mutual Consent of the person and the flock, and by the Magistrates authority, and by the Approbation and Investiture of the fittest Ecclesiastical officers that are to be had, there is an orderly and due separation to the Ministry; But all this is to be found in the Ordination used in England and other Reformed Churches, without Prelates: therefore &c. This proves not only the Validity of their Ordination, but the full Regularity.