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MOnsieur du Plessis.t 1.1 If our aduersaries aske vs, what was the vocation of those first Ministers, which vndertooke the Reformation of the Church in these last dayes: we wil answere that it is the very same vocation and succession, whereof they bragge: But that vocation which they abuse, our men haue well vsed: And to the vaine succession, which they so much stand vpon, wee haue added the succession of true doctrine, without the
which all succession is but continuance of abuse, and a vaine title.
For Iohn Hus, Luther, Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Bucer, Capito, Martyr, and others, out of whose schoole the Mi∣nisters are come forth, were Priests, Curates, and Do∣ctors in Diuinitie. I forbeare to speake of Archbishops, Bishops and Cardinals in Germany, England, Italy and Fraunce.
Treatise of the Church cap. 11.