lesia. Factum valet, fieri non
debet._ It may be helped after it is done, without making null or void the
ministry; but in a well-constituted church there ought to be no intrusion
into the ministry, the church's consent is requisite; for which also I
might bring both scripture and antiquity, but that is not my present
business. One thing I must needs put Mr Hussey in mind of, that when the
prelates did intrude ministers, without any regard to the disallowance of
the people, it was cried out against as an oppression and usurpation, and
we are often warned by Mr Prynne, by Mr Coleman, and by myself, to cast
away the prelates' usurpation with themselves. But who lords it now over
the Lord's inheritance, the Presbyterians or the Erastians? Nay, he who
will have ministers put in churches "without any regard to the allowance
or disallowance of people," falls far short of divers prelatical men, who
did much commend the ancient primitive form of calling ministers, not
without the church's consent. See Dr Field, _Of the Church_, lib. 5, cap.
54; Bilson, _de Gubern. Eccl._, cap. 15, p. 417; the author of _The
History of Episcopacy_, part 2, p. 360.

Fourthly, Mr Hussey, _Epist._, p. 7, saith, That upon further
consideration he found "the minister charged only with preaching and
baptising." The like he hath afterwards, p. 39, "Let any man prove that a
minister hath any more to do from Christ than to teach and baptise." And
again, p. 44, he propounds this query, "Whether Christ gave any more
government (he should have said any more to do, for preaching and
baptising are not acts of government) than is contained in preaching and
baptising," and he holds the negative. If only preaching and baptising,
then not praying and reading in the congregation, ministering the Lord's
supper, visiting the sick and particular families.

Fifthly, He holdeth, p. 20, That a heathen magistrate is unlawful, "and
for his government, if sin be lawful, it is lawful." A gross heterodoxy.
The Apostle exhorteth to be subject even to heathen magistrates, Rom.
xiii., for there were no other at that time, and to pray for them, 1 Tim.
ii.; so that by Mr Hussey's divinity, the Apostle would have men to be
subject unto, and to pray for an unlawful government. It is an
anabaptistical tenet, that an heathen magistrate is not from God, which
Gerhard, _de Magistrate Politico_, p. 498, 499, fully confutes.

Sixthly, He saith of Christ, p. 40, "He doth nothing as Media