...publique prayer with imposition of hands, were approved and admitted thereunto by law full authority . . . no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful!...Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in the Church of England, or sufferred to exrcute any of the said Functions, except he be called, tryed, examined, and admitted...

...been ordained at all.17 The Preface to the Ordinal was strengthened in an exclusive direction: ... No man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful...Bishop, Priest or Deacon in the Church of England... except he be called, tried examined and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following,...

...admitted 'according to the form hereafter following', it was now amended to read that no one would 'be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon' unless he were admitted 'according to the form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal...

...apostles' time there have been these orders in Christ's Church: bishops, priests, and deacons; and no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful...of England, or suffered to execute any of the said offices, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto according to the Ordinal or any...

...apostles' time there have been these orders in Christ's Church: bishops, priests, and deacons; and no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful...of England, or suffered to execute any of the said offices, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto according to the Ordinal or any...

...time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church: Bishops, Priests, and Deacons... And therefore, to the intent that these Orders may...of the said functions, except he be called, tried, and admitted thereunto, according to the Form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration...