0991 4. It was many hundred years before Arc Bithops had any Governing power over Bifhops, or exated any obedience from there ; being not Epifcopi Epifcooporu s(as the Carthage Fathers in Cyprian prof fled.)But were only Inch as had the firft feats and voices in the Synods. S. The queftion therefore is Whether filch Oaths, as necefpary to a Bifhops confecration, be to be Approved and contented to? XXVI. An O, th of Canonical obedience alto is put upon all that are made Pr:ieits and De cons : And Priefts at their ordination muff make this 'Covenant, that they [will reveres tíß+ obey their Ordinary, and other chief 11,1in;fers, unto whom is committed the char e and Govcrv.meut avçr them. 2. The ordinary is not only the Bifhop, but all() the Chancellour, Officials, S arrogates, Co if- Pries, Arch-Deacons, and all that are Judges in the Ecclefiaftical Courts: 3. to obey them that are thus de faELo fet over us, is no lets than to obey them in the excerc fe of that power which is given them as fo fet over us. q.. The doubt is, whether they that take any of them to be Llfurpers of an Ecclefiafì'icál power, which indeed they have not (and can prove it to be fo) fhou?d fwear or Covenant obedience to them as fuck. e. g. It is commonly confeffed by theConformists that the true power of the Keys, of oxcommu4zcatio a and Abfelation is appropriated by Chrift to the Clergy : And yet our Çhancellours being lay mcn, do dccretiyely excercife that power. The queftion is, may we í'wear or Covenant to obey them? 5. And Peeing Chrilt never give one Pfe.sbyter 0 4 the
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