The seuenth. Then none admitted to the ministerie, but (u) 1.1 a place was voyd afore hand, to which he should be called.
TO proue this you cite in the margent the first of the Acts, wher it is declared howe Mathias was chosen in the place of Iudas, to make vp the number of the. xij. Apostles. Surely this is but a slen∣der reason: Mathias was chosen into the place of Iudas, Ergo, no man must be admitted into the ministerie, excepte a place before hande be voyde, to the which he should be called. Euery meane sophister will laugh at the childishnesse of this argument.
Mathias was chosen to be an Apostle, and not to any certaine cure, and therfore this example proueth nothing.