Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 97. I come now to the Arguments of the adversaries of our Ministry, which I need not stand long on, because they are few and scarce considerable, and sufficiently answered in what is said. And first its said by a Learned man (Diss•rta•. de Episcop. contra Blondel. Praemoni•. ad L•ctor. sect. 4.13.) [Nos illud in hac disc•ptatione pro concesso positum cens•bimus, Nemin•m rect• dare quod non habet: eumque aut e•s qui hac potestate indu•i nunquam fuerint sine violation aut sacrilegio qu•d•m sibi arrogare aut assumere aut aliis aeque à Deo non vocatis, aut missis communicare neutiquam posse. [Illud hic nobis unicum m•minisse sufficiet, unumquemque in Anglicana Ecclesia ab Epi•copis ordinatum Presbyterum, nulla ordinandi alios facultate (aut per se, aut quà quolibet comparium caetu munitum) praeditum esse, nec igitur •am sibi rectius arrogare posse, quam si Diaconorum, immo Laicorum unus, aut plures, tali potestate nullatenus induti, idem ausursint.] The sum is: Presbyters have not this power▪ therefore they cannot give it.

Sect. 97. I come now to the Arguments of the adversaries of our Ministrie, which I need not stand long on, because they are few and scarce considerable, and sufficiently answered in what is said. And first its said by a Learned man (Diss•rta•. de Episcop. contra Blondel. Praemoni•. ad L•ctor. sect. 4.13.) [Nos illud in hac disc•ptatione pro concesso positum censbimus, Neminm rect dare quod non habet: eumque aut es qui hac potestate indui nunquam fuerint sine vilatione aut sacrilegio qudm sibi arrogare aut assumere aut aliis aeque à Deo non vocatis, aut missis communicare neutiquam posse. [Illud hic nobis unicum mminisse sufficiet, unumquemque in Anglicana Ecclesia ab Epicopis ordinatum Presbyterum, nulla ordinandi alios facultate (aut per se, aut quà quolibet comparium caetu munitum) praeditum esse, nec igitur am sibi rectius arrogare posse, quam si Diaconorum, immo Laicorum unus, aut plures, tali potestate nullatenus induti, idem ausursint.] The summ is: Presbyters have not this power therefore they cannot give it.