Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

The Translators Dedicate these things to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury; assuring him, that very many of His Clergy are come into the same Sentiments, & Admiring at it, that in France those who are yet called Roman-Catholics, are gone further from Rome, than some who go by a better Name, after a Struggle of Two Hundred Years to get rid of Popery. And yet this is not altogether so Unexpected, though it may be owned also somewhat Unaccountable! For tho' the very Life and Soul of the Papacy be in its Prelacy, yet the Force of Truth has brought a Confusion of Tongues on the Builders of it and extorted sometimes from the Papists themselves those Confessions which many that call themselves Protestants may be Confounded at. You know what their Master of Sentences has Pronounced on the Identity of Episcopus and Presbyter; and the Original & occasion of the former. And you know where to find it expressly asserted even in the Canon Law it self; That there are no more than Two Offices in the Church, the Presbyterate, and the Diaconate. But now, besides the many Rational Confutations given to the folly of these Men, it may be hoped, there will be a very Sensible one, from our Glorious Lord Owning and Crowning the Ministry of His Appointment in His Churches, with a Success that shall be Remarkable! And when it is Observed, that the Good Men, full of the Holy SPIRIT, shall have the Hand of the Lord with them, and many shall be by the Blessing of GOD upon their Labours Turned unto the Lord, their Call and their Character will no longer made a Question of. ⟨p. VIII⟩Such will more and more Issue from the Happy Nursery of Glasgow: Yea, Great will be the Army of them that shall go forth from thence with Sufficient Authority as well as Capacity to Publish the Word which our Ascended Lord has given for us.

The Translators Dedicate these things to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury; assuring him, that very many of His Clergy are come into the same Sentiments, & Admiring at it, that in France those who are yet called Roman-Catholicks, are gone further from Rome, than some who go by a better Name, after a Struggle of Two Hundred Years to get rid of Popery. And yet this is not altogether so Unexpected, though it may be owned also somewhat Unuccountable! For tho' the very Life and Soul of the Papacy be in its Prelacy, yet the Force of Truth has brought a Confusion of Tongues on the Builders of it and extorted sometimes from the Papists themselves those Confessions which many that call themselves Protestants may be Confounded at. You know what their Master of Sentences has Pronounced on the Identity of Episcopus and Presbyter; and the Original & occasion of the former. And you know where to find it expresly asserted even in the Canon Law it self; That there are no more than Two Offices in the Church, the Presbyterate, and the Diaconate. But now, besides the many Rational Confutations given to the folly of these Men, it may be hoped, there will be a very Sensible one, from our Glorious Lord Owning and Crowning the Ministry of His Appointment in His Churches, with a Success that shall be Remarkable! And when it is Observed, that the Good Men, full of the Holy SPIRIT, shall have the Hand of the Lord with them, and many shall be by the Blessing of GOD upon their Labours Turned unto the Lord, their Call and their Character will no longer made a Question of.