Suite r. XXVIT. Another evidence is the Canons, that none but a Bifhop inuit pub- ÉPit 88 Iickly reconcile a penitent, nor pronounce the bleftng in the Church, &c. Of i:bgæx o which before in particular Canons. tentiat. 7-heeded XXVIII. Another evidence is that Presbyters orBifhops were not to remove caneu, in from the Places they wereOrdained in : But thofe places ofold were tingle Churches; (ufuallyin Cities with the fuburbs thatcould come to the fame Church, as Dr. Field faith. ) Concil. Arelat.i. cited by Spelman, pag. 40. conch. A- ( because we had 3 Brittilh Bithops there ) [ In quibufcunque loch ordinatifries resat. . rint Miniffri, in ipfir loch perfeverent] And ipfe locus was not a circuit of 4o or c' 2 t. 5o oiloo miles lotig,b'ut the Bithops Parith or Vicinity. Of the Bithops notre-. moving ( withouta Synod ) many Couäcils fpeak. XXIX. Another evidence is that the Canonswhich take down the Chorepi- feopi and turn them toperiodeut.e. lrftorr, or Itinerants, and which forbid the Conc,Lood. makingofBifhops in (mall Cities, or villages, i. Were oflate date, 2. And c' 57' were in afpiring times, and had a reafon anfwerable, ne vilefcat nomen Epifco- pi; 3. And therefore intimate that it was otherwife before ( as I have before (hewed. ) XXX. A Separatift orSchifmatick was then known by his withdrawing from his proper Church; and fo was an Apoftate or defertet : And he that flayed away certain days was to be excommunicate ; `And they that fall into fins andnever prefent themfelves to the Church, to thew their penitence, even whenthey fall fick anddefire Communion,(hall not have it till they thew fruits worthy of repentance, faith Concil. Arelat. i. Can. 22. But i. in our way, when the Church that I am of is an hundredmiles long andhath abovea thou- fand Parifhes, who can tell when aman is at the Church, and when he is not, unlefs you.make'halfa years work to examine the matter in a thoufand Atfem- blies? 2..And a man may wander, and never be in the fame Affembly once in three years, and yet be (till in his own Church becaufe the Docefe is the Church : 3. Unlefs theBithops pretence as well as remote relation be neceffary ; And then no man cometh to Church, but he that cometh where the Bi(hop is, for obi. Epifeopus ibi Ecclefia : And the Parith Church is with them no Church, unlefs equivocally as a Community, For as Learned Dr. Field faith, ( and theymutt all fay) [None are to be ordained, but toferve infame Ctorch : and none have Churchesbut Bifhops ; all other being but affiftants to them in their Churches.] Lib. 5. c. 27. p. i39. Therefore they call theParith Netts the Bithops Cu- rates ; and Dr. Field, maketh the Bithops Church or Diocefe and a particular Church all one. If thenone Pari(h prie(l of a thoufand besan Arrian, A- tinomian, Socinian, Papift, Seeker, &c. he that feparateth not from that one Prieft and Parith meeting, feparateth not from his BilhopsChurch, aior any particular Church: For his Church is a countrey,which while he is in, he is no Separatift, ifhe joyn with any part of it. L XXXI.
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