8o The LI F E of the Part 111 ral Work; z. to the Scripture; 3. and to all Antiquity, and prance of the Catho- lick Church for many Hundred Years. 15. If it had been faid, that none but fach Biíhops thall have power to pronounce the Major Excommunication, or that which is now called Excommunication in !cot- land, to whichHorning, ú'c. is annexed, it would have lets founded to thecontra- did4ionof Antiquity, drr. For Sufpenfion from the Communion, which you allow to particular Churches and Presbyteries, is called by many the minor Excommunication, and by fome a Temporary ConditionalExcommunication and b y others, (as Sir Morrice) is written againft, as an unlawful thing, 'till fome tuft Excommuni- cation precede. zz. Might but the Moderator with hisPresbytery (by content) Ordain, it would more fatisfie. 24. In Tr'anfplanting both Moderators and Paftors, Ihouldnot either their own Coulent, or the Presbytery's, or People's be made neceltary? 31. Thewords of the Formula of Ordinationwill be material, as to honeft Men's reception, or refufal ofthe Office. 31. The Office ofa Paftor as inftitnted in Scripture, is not only to Baptize, and celebrate the Sacrament of Communion, but alfo to Judge by the power of the Keys, whom to Baptize, and to whom to give the Sacrament of Communion, that is, in Subordination toChrift's Prophetical, Priettly, andKingly Office, tobe his Minifter in Office; t. To teach the People; a. To go before them inWorship; 3. To guide themby the Keys of Difcipline. Andhe is no true Minifterthat wanteth any oneof thefe Powers, howeverhe maybe hindered from theExercife. 33 At leaft i. Neceffity adfinem; a. Scripture; 3. And the Catholick Antiqui- ty, Ihould be fo far regarded as to make the People's Content neceflàry, though not their Elefion, at leaft when they do not by unreafonable Denial forfeit this Priviledge. 35. If this be a limitation of Can. ?. itswell. A. 3. vain. Suppofing there be a tolerable Pallor there, and no notorious neceffi cy ; for force Parilhes may have no Paftor, force worfe thannone, and tonic with us- (asmany in London-Parifhes, Stepney, Giles, Cripplegate, Sepulchres, Martins, &c.) have more Souls than ten Men can Teachand Over-fee: who mutt not therefore be forfaken and given up toSatan, what-ever wefairer for endeavouringtheir Sal- vation. 47. A Bithop, if he pleafe, maythus caullelly keep molt Minifterain his Diocets from Preaching the Gofpel, for the moltpart of their Lives. I had rather bepu- nilhed as a Rogue at a Whipping Poft, before I amfully heard and judged, than have innocent Souls deprived of the ufual means oftheir Salvationunder pretenceof Punifhing me. At leaft, let no Snfpen(ion be valid, longer thanthe place is com- petently fuppliedby another. 48. Will no Midas or Stripes fatisfie theLaw. without Silencing Men, and for- bidding them to endeavour Men's Salvation (before theirCrimes are proved filch as render them nncapableofthat work? ) 49. But loath the Synod or Presbytery a Negative Voice in his punilhment, or not? yo. For Treafon and Murder there is reafon for it; hut if every Man mutt be depofed from the Miniftery, that did ever Curfe, Swear, or had any fcaudalous Vice from his Child-hood, before hisOrdination, or Converfion, I doubt the num- ber left will be too finals. 53. The old Canons diftinguilhed : Some Crimes left fo great a blot as made Mennncapable; others did not fo. If fuch a War should break out, as between theEmperor Henry IV. dro and thePope; or between the Hodes ofTork 'and Lan- rafter, the prevailing Party will force the Minifters to own him; and if the other Party after pravail, their Crime will be called Treafon, and all the Churches left defolate,
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