2.49) With eachother, as to receive each others-Members on Oft ocea- fion, without trying them all again. And if Bifhops or any do it fuperficially, that's their own fault. L. Whydo you impale the Regiftring ofCommunicants ? M. I i:npofe it not, but only 'commend it as a help to memo- ry. He that hath no more Communicants than he can remem- ber, needsit not But BifhopTer. Taytor in his Pref. to Treatife of Repentance, faith, That a Man cannot take a Paftoral charge, or give an account ofthem that he knoweth not. L. 4. Your fourth Articlefits Minifters onfuch work as few can well do, andfewwtIl ever faithfully do. Andyet forevery young, rata Prieít to havefachpower will never begranted by the Bifhops or the Laity. M. You may as well fpcak out and fay, that Chrift bath ap- pointedfach a Minifterial officeas the Worldwill never endure. Why then do they call themfelves Chriftians ? This is the proper workofa'Pallor, as it is of à Phyfician, to look particu- larly to the fick,and` not only to read a Phyfick Leíture to them. IfBifhops will-put in ignorant lads or unfit men, I fay again we cannot help it; nor muff we for that deny the Minifterial óff,oe, any more than we muff put down Preaching and Praying hecaufe'fome:areiunfit. The weight of this work Ihould ra- ther n äke all°careful toget onlyFt risen into the Miniffry L. But Pail every Prieft have power to put mm from the Say rament ;? M. If every Prieft muff adminiffer it, he muff -judge to whom : It is not a common food forall,but the Childrens Bread. If every Prieft muff judge whom to baptize, fo he muff whom to give this Sacrament to. 2. The Canons allow this as to the fcanáalous, fo wedo but prefent them to theBithopor Chancel- lour ; and it's lefs offenfive tofufpénd them without fuch profe- cation. Ifhe wrong any, they have their remedy. L But why doyou mention nomore folemnrLxcormunicat on, but this Declarative one and Sufpenfaon ? M. Becaufe I would ask nomore than needs of men that will not grant fo much. And I know no juft Excommunication but a Minifterial declaring according toGod's word,that a man hath made himfelf uncapable of Church-Communion and of thebene- fits ofGods Covenant, and binding him over to-anfwer his im- penitence at the barr ofGod, and requiring the Church accor- dingly to avoid him. K k L. 5
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