Containing their fifth Affertion, that our Laws are corrupt and repugnant to the Laws of God, in matter belonging to the power of Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction, in that we have not throughout all Churches certain Lay-Elders eftablished for the exercise of that power.

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HE fame Men which in heat of contention, BOOK VI. do hardly either fpeak or give ear to reafon, The quef. being after sharp and bitter conflicts retired to a tion becalm remembrance of all their former proceedings; whether all the causes that brought them into quarrel, the course Congregawhich their ftriving affections have followed, and pans or the iffue whereunto they are come, may peradven- ought to ture as troubled waters, in fmall time of their own Elders in accord, by certain eafy degrees fettle themfelves vefted with again; and fo recover that clearnefs of well advised power of Jurifdiction judgment whereby they shall stand at the length in fpiritual indifferent both to yield and admit any reasonable fatisfaction, where before they could not endure VOL. III.

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