The fifthe. Then the congregation (s) 1.1 had authoritie to call ministers: in steade therof now they runne, they ride, and by vnlawfull sute and buying, preuente other suters also.
To proue that the congregation had then authoritie to call mi∣nisters: you alleage the sixte of the Actes, whiche place of the Actes I touched before: It speaketh not of Ministers of the worde, but of Deacons, whiche were appoynted to make prouision for the poore only (as you say) neyther dyd the multitude of the Disciples (for so they be called) electe them before they were willed so to doe by the twelue Apostles.
It may be that some vse to runne and ryde, and by vnlawfull sute* 1.2 and buying preuente others, and it maye be that you haue expe∣rience heereof: but all doe not so, this is the faulte of the man, not of the callyng: you maye not ascribe mens infirmities to a lawfull order. The rule maye bee good, thoughe it bee by some broken.