Foure paradoxes 1 A byshop and a minister is all one. 2 A byshoppe or deacon shoulde not bee called Grace, Lord, or exercise such authoritie. 3 A popish priest is no lawful minister of the gospel. 4 Canon chauncellours, & officials are no meete officers in the churche of God.

3 A popish Priest is no law ful Minister of the gospel

A Byshop must bee vnreprouable. &c. apte to teache. &c. but a papal Priest is no such man.

The Ministers must bee chosen by the Faithfull, with praiers & fastyng, and in the assembly of the faithfull: but the popish Priest is chosen by an Idolater, without true praiers, or fa∣sting, and in the companye of irreli∣gious Papistes: therefore he is no true Minister.

He which is lawfully ordayned, & holdeth the Apostolicall & Euange∣licall tradition, is a Minister: but such a one is not the poipish Priest: the proofe is playne.

The Sinagoge of the Pope is

more aduersarie to Christ, then the Turke: therfore his Priestes are no lawfull Ministers of the Gospell.

Consider the definition of a Pastor, and it must needes euidentlye ap∣peare, that a popish Priest is no law∣full Minister.

[Question] If a popish Priest refuse his papa¦cie, & being cōuerted vnto the Gos∣pell, may he not be a Minister, with∣out any further calling, and so admi∣nister the Sacramentes?

[Answer] No: for it was not lawfull in the primitiue Church, for the Conuertes, without further calling to bee Mi∣nisters of the Sacramentes.

And if a meere Lay man is no law∣full Minister, no more is the papal Priest.

Againe, if a turkish Priest beyng conuerted, may not yet administer the Lordes Supper, nor without fur∣ther calling Baptize anye, no more may the papisticall Priest.

It is heresie to affirme, that the

Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, wythall his kyngdome, bee of the Church of God, which is meke, al pure & holy.

Wherefore, considering the premi∣ses, weighing the practise of the Apo∣stels, and looking to the order of the primitiue Church, we maye reason thus, for it is effectuall:

None being ordayned by the sy∣nagog of Antichrist, is a lawfull Mi∣nister:

All popish Priestes are ordayned by the synagog of Antichrist:

Therefore no popishe Priest is a lawfull Minister.

Notes

• 1. Tim. 3.
• Actss. 14. Titus. 1.
• Cypr: lib Epist. 4.
• Francise Lamber ad prin∣cip: lan san:
• ••amber∣us in pa ••ad:
• Ce∣la∣rent.