Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 24. 18. And it is a temptation to Infidelity and Contempt of the Church and Ministry, when men shall •ee that one party of Christians doth thus unchurch another. They will think that they may boldly say that of us, which we say of the another; one party unchurcheth all the Papists: these that we are now speaking to, do unchurch all the Protestant Churches ⟨p. 248⟩that are not Prelatical. The Papists unchurch all but themselves, and so among them, they leave Christ but a very small part of his inheritance.

Sect. 24. 18. And it is a temptation to Infidelity and Contempt of the Church and Ministrie, when men shall •ee that one party of Christians doth thus unchurch another. They will think that they may boldly say that of us, which we say of the another; one party unchurcheth all the Papists: these that we are now speaking to, do unchurch all the Protestant Churches ⟨p. 248⟩that are not Prelatical. The Papists unchurch all but themselves, and so among them, they leave Christ but a very small part of his inheritance.

Sect. 25. 19. Yea I fear that by Consequence (and too near and pla•n a Consequence) they dissolve the Catholic Church it self. And if it be so, let them judge whether their doctrine subvert not Christianity? I use no violence for the inference. If want of Prelatical Ordination do Null the Protestant Ministry and Churches, then it must needs follow that far greater defects (and more against the vitals of the Church) will do as much to unchurch the Romanists, the Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, &c. But alas, how easy is it to prove that all these have far greater defects then the Presbyterian Protestant Churches! and so the whole must fall together.

Sect. 25. 19. Yea I fear that by Consequence (and too near and plan a Consequence) they dissolve the Catholike Church it self. And if it be so, let them judge whether their doctrine subvert not Christianitie? I use no violence for the inference. If want of Prelatical Ordination do Null the Protestant Ministrie and Churches, then it must needs follow that far greater defects (and more against the vitals of the Church) will do as much to unchurch the Romanists, the Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, &c. But alas, how easie is it to prove that all these have far greater defects then the Presbyterian Protestant Churches! and so the whole must fall together.