Chap. 1. the second Diuision.
In the sixt of the Actes mention is made of Deacons only, whom you will not allowe to be ministers of the worde, and therfore this place serueth not your tourne, neyther is there any thing spoken of any tryall, but only they are willed to looke out among them, sea∣uen men of honest report, and full of the holie Ghost, and wisdome to be appoynted Deacons.
And where you saye that the sixte of the Actes, bycause it speaketh of Deacons is nothyng to the mater, me thynke you shoulde haue easily vnderstanded, that if a tryall bee necessarie in Deacons (whiche is an vnder office in the Churche, and hathe regarde but to one parte of the Churche, whyche is the poore, and is occupied in the distribution of money) muche more it ought to be in an office of greater charge, whiche hath respect to the whole Churche, and is occupied in the dispensyug of the holy worde of God.
That there shoulde be a tryall of suche as are to be admitted to the ministerie, I thinke it moste conuenient (as I tolde you before) excepte the parties be sufficiently known to such as haue authoritie to admit them: but I say that this place of the Acts dothe not proue it, both bicause the office of a Deacon (by their opinion) is altogether distinct from the office of a minister of the woord, the one perteyning to the body, the other to the soule, the one occupied aboute moneye, the other in the woorde, and al∣so,