Five disputations of church-government and worship

^†Quod & apud vos factum videmus in Sabini collegae nostri ordinatione, ut de universae fraternitatis suffragio & de Episcoporum qui in praesentia convenerant, quique de eo ad vos literas fecerant judicio, Episcopatus ei deferretur, & manus ei in locum Basilidis imponeretur.] And so he goes on to show that even the Bishop of Romes restoring of Basilides, was not valid to rescind the foresaid Ordination of Sabinus, which was thus made by the Bishops on the peoples suffrages. And yet our Diocesans ⟨p. 229⟩have, alas, too commonly thrust on the people against their consent, such unworthy persons, as of whom we may say as Cyprian (ibid.) of these, [Cumque alia multa sint & gravia delicta quibus Basilides & Martialis implicati tenentur; frusta tales Episcopatum sibi usurpare co•antur, cum manifestum sit ejusmodi homines nec Ecclesiae Christi posse praeesse, nec Deo sacrificia offerre debere.] I have cited these words at large, because they are full and plain to show us the practice of those times, and are the words of an African Synod, and not of Cyprian alone, and show that then the People had the chiefest hand in the Election or designation of the person, which is it that I have now to prove.

^†Quod & apud vos factum videmus in Sabini collegae nostri ordinatione, ut de universae fraternitatis suffragio & de Episcoporum qui in praesentia convenerant, quique de eo ad vos literas fecerant judicio, Episcopatus ei deferretur, & manus ei in locum Basilidis imponeretur.] And so he goes on to shew that even the Bishop of Romes restoring of Basilides, was not valid to rescind the foresaid Ordination of Sabinus, which was thus made by the Bishops on the peoples suffrages. And yet our Diocesans ⟨p. 229⟩have, alas, too commonly thrust on the people against their consent, such unworthy persons, as of whom we may say as Cyprian (ibid.) of these, [Cumque alia multa sint & gravia delicta quibus Basilides & Martialis implicati tenentur; frusta tales Episcopatum sibi usurpare co•antur, cum manifestum sit ejusmodi homines nec Ecclesiae Christi posse praeesse, nec Deo sacrificia offerre debere.] I have cited these words at large, because they are full and plain to shew us the practice of those times, and are the words of an African Syrod, and not of Cyprian alone, and shew that then the People had the chiefest hand in the Election or designation of the person, which is it that I have now to prove.