A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible…

But if this Argument intend that they are Pastors of the Catholic Body as of One Political Church, then we deny the Assumption upon this ground; because a Pastoral Office consists properly ⟨p. 103⟩in having a charge and power over those to whom he is a Pastor, Act. 20. 28. but he hath no charge of the whole; for if so, he must give account to Christ of the whole; neither hath he power over such a Catholic church, being never chosen by it, nor it subjecting to him. If it be said, such are made Pastors by Ordination of the Presbyters, not the election of the people who only appropriate him to themselves, who is a Pastor of the whole Church: then he is either a Catholic Pastor that hath power to intermeddle in all Churches, as the Apostles had, which we think none will yield them; or else they are Pastors only in name, without power, which is absurd. Nor doth the similitude of a Physician made Doctor of Physic at large by a College of Physicians, help in this case. For it supposeth him to be made such a Doctor before he be elected by any people to exercise this faculty; which applied to this case of a Pastor, as having Ordination to make him a Pastor at large, before election to this or that people, is utterly against all examples of Scripture, as Acts 1. & 6. & 14,

But if this Argument intend that they are Pastors of the Catholick Body as of One Politicall Church, then we deny the Assumption upon this ground; because a Pastorall Office consists properly ⟨p. 103⟩in having a charge and power over those to whom he is a Pastor, Act. 20. 28. but he hath no charge of the whole; for if so, he must give account to Christ of the whole; neither hath he power over such a Catholick church, being never chosen by it, nor it subjecting to him. If it be said, such are made Pastors by Ordination of the Presbyters, not the election of the people who onely appropriate him to themselves, who is a Pastor of the whole Church: then he is either a Catholick Pastor that hath power to intermeddle in all Churches, as the Apostles had, which we think none will yeeld them; or else they are Pastors onely in name, without power, which is absurd. Nor doth the similitude of a Physitian made Doctor of Physick at large by a Colledge of Physitians, helpe in this case. For it suppseth him to be made such a Doctor before he be elected by any people to exercise this faculty; which applyed to this case of a Pastor, as having Ordination to make him a Pastor at large, before election to this or that people, is utterly against all examples of Scripture, as