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

for the ordinary election of Evangelist to preach the word of God in Samaria, and to baptize the Eunuch of Ethiopia: and we do not read either that those who preached first after the dispersion of the Church of Jerusalem in Phoenicia and Cyprus had a vocation by the laying on of hands of the Apostles: who, on the contrary, were all astonished to hear what had happened: and they did not blame these preachers as usurpers, but sent Peter and John to Samaria to finish establishing the work begun by Philip, and praised God greatly for it. Acts 8:14 and 11:19. Even less did the Cypriots and Cyrenians begin to preach the Gospel in Antioch by ordinary vocation, seeing that those in Jerusalem at the beginning could in no way taste that. Behold then two exceptions to the ordinary vocation: namely when the disorder is such that there is no appearance of using it, and when some opportunity given by God presents itself, which cannot well be deferred nor omitted, for the advancement of His glory. And you must not here ask for confirmation by miracles, as much because the gift of miracles has ceased for a very just reason (the doctrine being