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3. There is another defect in the Distribution, in dividing the key of order from the key of Jurisdiction: of purpose to make way for the power of Chancellors and Commissaries in foro exteriori: who though they want the key of order, (having never entered into holy orders, as they are called, or at most into the order of Deacons only, whereof our Lord spake nothing touching Jurisdiction) yet they have been invested with Jurisdiction, yea, and more then ministerial authority, even above those Elders who labour in word and doctrine: By this sacrilegious breach of order (which hath been as it were the breaking of the Files and Ranks in an Army) Satan hath routed and ruined a great part of the liberty and purity of Churches, and of all the Ordinances of Christ in them.

3. There is another defect in the Distribution, in dividing the key of order from the key of Jurisdiction: of purpose to make way for the power of Chancellours and Commissaries in foro exteriori: who though they want the key of order, (having never entred into holy orders, as they are called, or at most into the order of Deacons onely, whereof our Lord spake nothing touching Jurisdiction) yet they have been invested with Jurisdiction, yea, and more then ministeriall authoritie, even above those Elders who labour in word and doctrine: By this sacrilegious breach of order (which hath been as it were the breaking of the Files and Ranks in an Armie) Satan hath routed and ruined a great part of the libertie and puritie of Churches, and of all the Ordinances of Christ in them.

4. A fourth defect (but yet the least, which we observe in this distribution) is, that order is appropriated to the Officers of the Church only. For though we be far from allowing that sacrilegious usurpation of the Ministers office, which we hear of (to our grief) to be practised in some places, that private Christians ordinarily take upon them to preach the Gospel publicly, and to minister Sacraments: Yet we put a difference between Office and Order. Office we look at as peculiar to those, who are set apart for some peculiar function in the Church, who are either Elders or Deacons. But order (speaking of Church-order properly taken) is common