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To the whole presbytery, made up of those two sorts of elders, belonged the act of ordination, which is mission, howbeit the right, which was imposition of hands, belonged to those elders alone which laboured in the word and doctrine. And so we are to understand that which the Apostle there saith of the presbytery’s laying on of hands upon Timothy.
His confession of the presbytery’s power and authority, we catch and lay hold on; but whereas he would have this power any way proper and personal to bishops, he is confuted by our former arguments.
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