That the present ministry retained and used in England of archbishop, lord bishops,¹ deans, presbyteries, canons, peti-canons, arch-deacons, chancellors, commissaries, priests, deacons, parsons, vicars, curates, hireling, roving preachers, church-wardens, parish-clerks their doctors, proctors, and whole rabble of those courts with all from and under them set over these cathedral and parishional Assemblies in this confusion, are a strange and anti-christian ministry and offices; and are not that ministry above named instituted in Christ’s Testament, or allowed in or over His church.²

1. Original reads Arch-b^bb, Lo^bb ↩︎
2. Ephesians 4:11–12; 1 Timothy 3:15; 5:17; Revelation 9:3ff.; 13–18; 16:17, compared with Romans 12:7–8; compare this article with the 1, 7, 12–14, 19–24, & 28 articles aforesaid. ↩︎