What are the things disagreeing hereunto?
1 The errour of the Swinkfeldians, who call the outward mi∣nistery of teaching a dead letter, and therefore say, that inward re∣uelations of the spirit are required also.
2 Of the Donatists, who denie, that the ministerie of wicked Ministers is powerfull in the administration of the Sacraments, ac∣cording to Christs institution. And of the Anabaptists who hold that all who of themselues will, of what estate soeuer they bee, without any sending, ordination, examination, choyce, and te∣stimonie of a lawfull calling, euen women if they be learned, may teach, either by word or writing, after the example of Holda, De∣borah, and the fower daughters of Philip, which did Prophecie; whereas this nothing toucheth the ordinary function of teachers in the Church.
3 Of those which either goe about vtterly to put downe the ministery, or else make light of it, as not verie neces∣sarie.
4 False Prophets, which preach the fancies of their owne brain and not the word of God.
5 Hirelings, who runne, neuer looking for a lawfull cal∣ling, and enter in by the windowe, seeke their bellie, and the things that are their owne, and not the things that