election of Ministers and Elders, and the doing of matters of chiefest importance, with the knowledge and consent of congregations: partly aristocratical in respect of the parity of Presbyters and their consistorial proceedings and decrees. The Monarchicall part is Christs peculiarly. 2. The Prelacy permitteth not to congregations any act of their owne Church government, but robbeth them of their par∣ticular Elderships,De pol. Eccl. pag. 358. which (as Parker well no∣teth) the Classicall Presbyteries doe not. 3. It is one thing, saith Baynes, for Churches to subject themselves to a Bishop and Consistory,Ubi supra.wherein they shall have no power of suffrage: Another thing to communicate with such a Pres∣bytery, wherein themselves are members and Iudges with others. 4. The congregations did not agree not consent to Episcopall govern∣ment, but were sufferers in respect of the same, but they doe heartily agree to the go∣vernement of Presbyteries and Synods, in witnesse whereof they send their Commissio∣ners thither to concur, assist, & voice. 5. Speci∣all respect is had in Presbyteries and Synods, to the consent of congregations, in all matters of importance, which are proper unto the same. This the Prelacy did not regard. 6. Presbyteries and Synods doe not (which the Prelats did) imperiously and by their sole 0