sundrie respects different from that which the laws re∣quire; yea and our owne Gouernors in fact haue per∣mitted the ministery of some, who neuer receiued ordi∣nation, either from Papists or themselues. And hee can∣not be ignorant but that some by connivencie are yet suffred in some points of their ministery to swerue from some observances which the lawes require. The Argu∣ment therefore will not follow, from the qualitie of the ministery, except hee can proue that our Ministery is in all our Assemblies, in all respects aimswerable to our lawes.
2. The Preesthood which the law admitteth is not cal∣led Sacerdotius but Presbyteratus, and the Priests are not called Sacerdotes or sacrificers but Presbyters, (as suffi∣ciently appeares by our orders in Latin.) Therefore the Law doth not intende any true and proper Priesthood but onely boroweth the name to expresse an office of another kinde.
3. To bee Persons, Vicars, Stipendaries, Chaplins, &c. is not to haue a diuers kind of Priesthood or deaconry, or Ministery (as hee foolishly conceiteth:) onely varie∣tie of Tytles is giuen to the same kind of Ministery, in diuers persons, in respect only of a diuers kinde of main∣tenaunce or dependance, for Parsons are such as haue all tythes in kinde; Vicars such as haue only the smaller Tyths, the other being impropriated by the Magistrate for other purposes; Stipendaries are such as are maintai∣ned by the voluntary Contribution of their Churches or by some such like meanes. Chaplins are such as depend vpon great men; The Ministery of all which (If they duly execute the same) is one and the same, even that