(M1) _Si quis dixerît in ecclesia Catholica non esse heirarchiam divina ordinatione institutam, quæ constat ex Episcopis. Presbyteris & ministris, anathema sit._ _Bellarmine_ likewise in his book _De Clericis._ _cap._ 11. saith, _That there are three Hierarchies in the militant Kirk: The first of Bishops, the second of Priests, the third of Deacons, and that the Deacons are also Princes, if they be compared with the people:_ This proposition following; _Hierarchia ecclesiastica constat ex Pontifice, Cardinalibus, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis & Regularibus_, was censured by the Facultie of Theologie in the Universitie at _Paris_, as followeth, _Inicta prima propositione enumeratio membrorum hierarchiæ ecclesiasticæ sen sacri principatus, divina ordinatione instituti est manca & redundaus atque, inducens in errorem contrarium determinationi sacræ Sinodi Tridentinæ_: The proposition was defective, because it pretermitted the Presbyters and Deacons; it was censured as redundant, because it made the _Hierarchie_ to consist of the _Pope_, _Cardinals_, _Archbishops_, and _Regulars_; the _Pope_ is not within the _Hierarchie of Primats_, _Metropolitanes_, and _Archbishops_, but as they are Bishops. Furthermore, this _Hierarchie_ is distinguished in the confession from the _Popes monarchie_. And howbeit this _Hierarchie_ be called the _Antichrists Hierarchie_, yet it is not to distinguish betwixt the _Hierarchie_ in the Popish Kirk, and any other as lawful: But the _Hierarchie_, wheresoever it is, is called his, as the rest of the Popish corruptions are called his: To wit, _Invocation of Saints_, _canonisation of Saints_, _dedication of Altars_, &c. are called his, not that there is another lawfull canonization, invocation, or dedication of altars: whatsoever corruption was in the Kirk, either in doctrine, worship, or government since the ministry of iniquitie began to work, and is retained, and maintained, by the _Pope_, and obtruded upon the Kirk by his authority, are his. A passage also out of the history of the councell of _Trent_ was alledged, where it is related, that the Councell would not define the _Hierarchie_ by the _seven orders_: we have in our confession of Faith the _manifold orders_ set apart and distinguished from the _Hierarchie_, but as it is set down in the cannon above cited: We have in the book of Policie or second booke of Discipline, in the end of the second chapter, this conclusion agreed upon. _Therefore all the ambitious titles invented in the kingdome of Antichrist, and in his usurped HIERARCHIE which are not of one of these four sorts, To wit, Pastours, Doctours, Elders, and Deacons, together with offices depending thereupon, in one word ought to be rejected._