SECT. II. The first Objection against the Truth, answered.
THe first is common in the School made against the ponti••i∣cal, in this point, because that in all that part of the Ponti••ical it is said only, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, and that Language is the same in the Ordination of Priests; as likewise the Imposition of Hands; so that by this no man can know what Order is given; in the Church of Rome it is answered that the design which they are about will shew it, whether to one or to the other Order; and again the manner of the Imposition of Hands, in the Consecration of a Bishop, divers Bishops Impose Hands, in the Ordination of a Priest one Bishop only with some Presbyters, in the Ordination of a Deacon the Bishop alone, but in our Church that scruple is clearly taken away by a great Prudence, where at the Ordination of a Priest, the Consecra∣ting words are, Receive the Holy Ghost, for the office and work of a Priest, and at the Consecration of a Bishop the words are, Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God; where wee see that universal cause of all Spiritual blessings, (I mean the Holy Ghost) applied to that particular duty, in which at that time he works, and therefore the Consecration is free from that Exception.