_J. D._ Sometimes he is for holy orders, and giveth to the pastors of the church the right of ordination and absolution, and infallibility, too much for a particular pastor, or the pastors of one particular church. _It is manifest, that the consecration of the chiefest doctors in every church, and imposition of hands, doth pertain to the doctors of the same church._ And, _it cannot be doubted of, but the power of binding and loosing was given by Christ to the future pastors, after the same manner as to his present apostles_. And, _our Saviour hath promised this infallibility in those things which are necessary to salvation, to his apostles, until the day of judgment, that is to say, to the apostles, and pastors to be consecrated by the apostles successively, by the imposition of hands_. But at other times he casteth all this meal down with his foot. _Christian sovereigns are the supreme pastors, and the only persons whom Christians now hear speak from God, except such as God speaketh to in these days supernaturally._ What is now become of the promised infallibility? And, _it is from the civil sovereign that all other pastors derive their right of teaching, preaching, and all other functions pertaining to that office; and they are but his ministers in the same manner as the magistrates of towns, or judges in courts of justice, and commanders of armies_. What is now become of their ordination? Magistrates, judges, and generals, need no precedent qualifications. He maketh _the pastoral authority of sovereigns to be_ jure divino, _of all other pastors_ jure civili: he addeth, _neither is there any judge of heresy among subjects, but their own civil sovereign_. Lastly, _the church excommunicateth no man but whom she excommunicateth by the authority of the prince_. And, _the effect of excommunication hath nothing in it, neither of damage in this world, nor terror upon an apostate, if the civil power did persecute or not assist the church: and in the world to come, leaves them in no worse estate, than those who never believed. The damage rather redoundeth to the church. Neither is the excommunication of a Christian subject, that obeyeth the laws of his own sovereign, of any effect._ Where is now their power of binding and loosing?