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Numb.
H.
APPENDIX.
Ordination.
No nor
do they
know whether their Mini1e_rswereeverordained or
not
:
And it bath been known
that many
have provedUCurpers (efpecially at
Rome)
which the Common
People could not know
;
and therefore could
not
by Inch
Knowledge
be
di(obliged.
xa.
If
the Adminiftrations
of
all Ufurpers were
null,.
(and
fo
the
Ordination of fach) then innocent
Perlòns and Churches fhould tàffer
(yea, Ruine
it
felt) meerly
through other Mens
Faults.
Bur
ne
Man
is
to
lirffec
for
other
Mens Faults
meetly
:
Ergo,
The
Minor
is evident.
The
Major
is as
evident.;
a.
It
is
none
of
the Churches Fault, or
at
leaft,
not
of
each
Member, that
a
Ufurper
fecredy intrudethand deceiveth
them, pretending right when
hebath none.
At
leaft
it
is
not
always and
in
all
Cafes
their
Fault
And yet that the
Church
would fuffer by
it,
yea,
Ruine it
felt;
is
apparent
s
in
that
all
the Ordination
of
fach Men would be
null,
and
fo all
their
Churches
would be no true
Organized
Political Churches but meer Communities, and,all
the Baptihn and other
Adroini=
ftrations
of
all filch
Ordained Men would
be
null. Moreover, it
is
evidently
againft common Equity.
If
the Deputy
of
Leland,
or
the
Pro-rea
of
Naples
were
dead, and one fhould
fo
counterfeit the King's Hand
andSeal,
as
that
the Nobles
and
People could
not
difcern
it
and
fhould annex this to
a
Grant for the
Place,:.at
d
thew it
the People,
and
chito
the Power by
it
:
If
this
Man
continue
the
exercdfe
of
this
Power
for
a Year
'before
the King difplace'hitn, or the Deceit
be.difco-
vered,'all
his
Actions
malt
be valid
as
to the
Benefit
of the
Commonweath,
though they
are Treafonable to
himfelf: And he
conveys
Power
front the
Kìng'eo
inferior
Officers, who
yet never
received
any himfelf;
So
is
kin
this
prefent Cafe.
02.
if
the
Ordination: of Magiftratesdid
feat
turn
in cafe
of
a
failing in the regu-
lar way
before
Chrift's Incarnation, then
it
may
do
fo
now.
But the
formeras
true
:
Ergo,
The
Rea(on
of
the Confequence
is,
both that God
was
as
(Iii& in Po-
fitives
then
as
now, and ihat there
was as...great
Neceflity
then of an
uninterrupted
Succeffion
for derivation from
God,
as
now there
is.
Solomon,
pat
out
Abiatbkr
from
being High-Prieft, and
put
Zadackin his Read,
t
Ring. z.
27135. David
and
the
Cap-
rains
of
the
Hefts féparared
to
God's Service
shore
of
the
Sons
of
Afaph,
and
of
Hemav,
and
of
yedutbun,
who fhould
propbefie
with Harps, &c.
t
Chron,
2
f.
a,
6.
They
were
for
the
Service
of
the Houfe
of
God, according
to the
King's Order,
16
r Chron.
i6.
did
Solomon,
z
arm.
8.
x4,
5.
The
Magiftrates
Power in
Church
Matters
Was
no Ceremony or Temporary Thing.
13.
When any
Officers
of
theTemple were
difcovered
to
have
no
Tuft
Title,
and thereupon
were
put out ;
yet none
of
their
A&ions
while they were in
Place.
were cenfured null
:
Ergo,
if
now
any
be
ditto
vered to have no
.
Title,
his
former
A&ions
are
not
to be judged
null.
The
Realon of the Confequence lyeth in
the Equality
of
the
Cafe.
The
Antecedent
is
proved from Ezra
2.
62. Neh.
7.
64,
65.
They
fought their Regifter among theft
that
were
reckoned
by
Genealogy,
but
they
were
not found
: therefore
were
they
as polluted
put
from
the
Prifthead.
So Neb.
13..29,
30.
And
therefore the
Ordination
done before
filch
Ejeótion,
is
not
null.
And
that
the individual Perfon to receivethis
Power,
may
be
determined
of in
cafe
of
neceflìty, without an Ecclefiaftical Authoritative
Determination, may fur-
ther appear
thus
: 1.
If
the individual Perfon may
be
determined
of
ordinarily,
or
fometimes by
the
Peoples Ele&ion
to
be prefented
to the Minihers
for
their Or.,
dination,
or
Confirmation, thenmay
the.
individual Perfòn be determined
of
by
the
People to
he
prefented to God immediately, for
his
Ordination, in
cafe
there be
no Ordainers
to
be
had. But the
Antecedent
is
true
:
Ergo,
the Antecedent
is
pro-
ved,
1.
From the ApoftlesInftru &ion to the Church
of
ferufalem,
Ali.
6.
;.
Cboofe
you, er
look you out
fven
Men
of
honef Report,
full
of the Holy Chaff
and Wifdom,
whomwe
may appoint
over
this Bufn
fs.
They
defcribe the Men, and
leave
them to
nominate them that were
Euch.
And
if
the Church can do
this
to prefent to the
Apottles, then it
Teems
they
are competent Difcerners
of
Such.
If
the Apoftles
had
laid,
(We do appoint and authorize the
feven
Men whom
you
1hall
choofe,
1h
that
they
be fuch
and
filch
Men) the Ordination
had
been as
valid,
on Suppofition
of
Etch
an Eleltion,
as
it was
when
it
followed the Ele&ion.
And
if
the Apo
files
might
have
fo
done, no doubt, God may
fo do by
his
Law
:
For he doth
the
fame,
-roiz.
defcribe
the Perlons, and confer
thePower,
particularly,
and
on an In-
dividuum
vagem, and fèmetimes
quaff
f:gnatum
and
if
popular
Ele&ion
can make
it
an Individuum
determinatuin,
then
all
is
done.
2.
And the Church
hath continued
this
Cullom
fo
far, that Councils decreed Ordinations invalid without
Ele&ions
of
the
People;
yea, if they were but afrighted
and
over-awed,
and did it notfreely.
Infomvch
that
Cyprian
faith,
Plebs
maximam habet, poteftatem, 'eel
dignos Sacerdotei
elegendi,
vel
indignos
rétufandi:
Till
the bloody bout in the choice
of
Damafsss,
ie