Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

with science and zeal, according to what is required, not to introduce confusion by some contempt of the order that was not then in being, but on the contrary to re-establish and set it up again. Such was the vocation of so many Prophets opposed to the Priests, and not called by any ministry of men, nor by the law of the succession of Levi: seeing that the gift of prophecy could never be acquired by ordinary means, but was a pure and immediate vocation from God, although sometimes God anointed one through another, as Elisha by Elijah. 1 Kings 19:16. Such was the vocation of John the Baptist, not having said and done what he said and done as being of the race of Aaron nor by the knowledge and ordinance of the Priests. For to say that in such a case one must wait for the ordinary vocation is as much as if one said that one must wait for the ordinance of lechers and harlots to reform the brothels: and the goodwill of brigands to reform justice. Furthermore, at the beginning of the preaching of the Gospel, although there was a truly divine order, and entirely legitimate, set up and practiced in the Church of Jerusalem by the Apostles themselves, yet it is that Philip, not having been elected except as Deacon in Jerusalem, did not wait