16. Brownists Ordination.* 1.1
BUT let them shew who devised their Ordination of Mi∣nisters; I dare say, not Christ, nor his Apostles, nor their Successors.
What Church in the whole world can be produced unlesse in case of necessity, whose conspiring multitudes made them Mi∣nisters at pleasure? What rule of the Church prescribeth it? What Reformed Church ever did it, or doth practise it? What example warrants it? where have the in••eriours presumed to lay their hands upon their Superiours? It is an old policy of the faulty to complain first; certainly, there was never Popish Legend a more errand device of man then some parts of this Ministery of theirs, so much gloried in for sincere correspon∣dency with the first Institution.