r89 )` irregularity that nullifieth it : There may be many modal eit- cumfiantials , oraccidental mifcarriages that may not Null the the fubflance of the Ordination it felt'. Sett. 3`7 .Yet it muff be concluded ,that we may not be wilfully . guiltyofany fin in the modes or accidents : But that may be a fin. in the Ordatrer,which the Ordainedmaynot be guilty of, as do-- ing nothing that fignifieth an approbation ofit, but perhaps dd. owning it. Sett. 38. If wehave beenguiltyof fubmitting to a corruptor;- dination,as to the accidents, we molt difown and repent of the Gnfu11 mode and accidents , though not of the Ordination it fellin fubliance. As wemuff bewail theerrours and infirmities ofour preaching, prayer, andother holy duties , without red nouncingthe duty itfelf,which is of God, and to be owned. Sett. 39. As to theQuefiion of fome, whether a man may be twiceOrdained, in cafe be fufpet his firft Ordination: I anfwer, . r.You muadittinguifh between a General Ordination to the° office of theMiniftry and a Ipecial Ordination to a particular Church. (As the lice afingof a Phyfitian ; and the letting him <. over;. a City or Hofpital ) The firft may be donebut once,in cafe it be truely done : but the fecond may be done asoft as we re- move to particular Churches : Though yet both maybe done at once, atour firft Ordination ; t hey are Iä11 two thi.ngs ; Even as Baptizingaman intoMember.fhip ofthe univerfal Church, and takinghim into a particular Church. Its not like that the repa- ration and Impoftionofhandson Pentland Barnabas, Aft: 13, 2,3. was to their firft Apoftlefhip. Sett. 4o. Ifa man have weighty reafons todoubt of his firít Ordination, hisfafeftway is to renew it, as is ufuall in Baptirni., witha [Si non Baptizatns es Bapti.to to ] If thou be not Ordain-, oil Ordain thee. TbiLea.a have no danger in fuch a. cafe.. 111:1 3': HAT:,
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