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herent, that it is not worth your while to stand 

 by, and see it fall in pieces, which it would quickly 

 do (were it not already done * to our hands) upon 

 a gentle examination. I shall only remind you 

 of what was said before upon the former particu- 

 lar, and so leave it in compromise to any indif- 

 ferent; whether St. Paul the Apostle of Jesus 

 Christ, who so stoutly refuseth to i^eleve of St. 

 Peter himself, or the rest of the Apostles, as 

 owing his whole commission to Heaven alone, 

 would yet acknowledge to hold it of R. Gamaliel, 

 the unconverted Jew, as usher of his school, or 

 graduate in a Rabbinical academy. 



(3). (Yet further to vindicate ourselves) A^i 

 Apostle of Jesus Christy not a delegate of the 

 civil magistrate. For | Suarez, the Spanish Je- 

 suit, that he may have something to confute in 

 the English sect (as he will needs call us), saith 

 confidently, that the power of order with us is 

 nothing else but a deputation of certain persons 

 by the temporal magistrate, to do those acts 

 which he himself much more might do; made 

 indeed with some kind of ceremonies, but those 

 esteemed arbitrary, and unnecessary to the effect, 

 which would follow as well without them, by the 

 king's sole deputation. A calumny, which the 

 whole business of this day most solemnly refutes : 

 a kind of a second Nag's-head fable, a fil of the 



* See Dr. H. H. Letter of Resolut. &c. Quer. 5. 

 t Advers. Sect. Angl. lib. 3. cap. 8. num. 12. 



