(9T) 2. The workof the other is, r. To fend Curates to be the ordinary Teach- er, and Guides,andPriefts to the people ; even to each Pariah one. 2. To have a LayChancellors Court to trouble them in a fecular mode,and to judge men to excommunicationand abfolution. 3. To vitit fome Towns in his Diocefe,and there to call together the Clergy and Churchwardens, once in three years, (or a year ifhepleafe. ) 4. To have an Archdeacon to keep fome kind ofCourts under him in certain places, by himfelfor hisofficial. g. Togrant Licences to Marry : 6. And to preach : 7. And to eat fleth in Lent. 8. To fufpend or filence Preachers. 9. To lay his hands on.Children or others, for the Cere- mony of Confirmation ; perhaps on the thoufandth or five hundredth part of his Diocefe, ( though dejare he fhould do it to every one) i o. To preach as oft as he plçafe in hisCathedral, or where he will. Butasfor theaforefaid work of a Bithop of a particular Church, he is not to do it, nor anyone part of it, that I know of. Forwhereas the true office of fuck a Bithop is (asDr. Hammond in hisAnnotat. well defcribeth it ) by a Mi- nifterial participation to fubfervethrift to his whole flock in the threefoldwork of ateacher, a Prieft, and a Ruler, he doth no one partof all. a. Inftead of Teaching his flock, he (ifhe be oneof the extraordinary belt)dothonly pub- lickly preach once or twice a week to the thoufandthor five hundredth or hun- dredth part ofhis flock : (But fo do very fewof them, but fome it may be once ina month or a year) And as to the perfonal care of their Souls, he kath notone Park': that he taketh thecare of,to teach them perfonally. 2.He feldom doth officiate inpublick Prayer, Praife,and Sacrament to any partof his flock : And when he doth, it is but toa particle ofthe forefaid proportion : But when others do it, he faith, He doth it by them. 3. He Both not at all govern his flock with that which is the true Paftoral Government ; which is in perfon among them toguide them, and refolve their doubts, andadmit thofe to Com- munion that are fit, and refufe the unfit ; Toadmonith all the fcandalous and unruly, as perfonally known to him, to watchover them and confirm the weak, and refel feducers when they come among them. But inftead ofthis, he never feeth them,.( asto the main bodyofhis flock) nor knoweth them, but furn- moneth their Teachers and Church-wardens, ( and fuch as others that dwell among them, or his Apparitors will accufe to him) to come before his Lay- Qhancellours Court, as aforefaid, and in his Visitation to meet him : fothat here is noneof the fame work nonor Government it felf, but another kind of Government. And here note, r. That the forefaid three parts of the office ( Teaching, Worfhipping, and Ruling) are all Efential to the office ; fo that if he wanted but any One ofthem, he were not an Officer ofthe fame fpecies with thofe that have them all, much more if he have but One, yea, not One of all. 2. That the flockor Church is not to be denominated from a frnall or incon- fiderablepart of it,butfrom the main Body. Thereforehe that is the Teacher but of oneCongregation of a thoufand, or many hundreds, or fcores, is not to be therefore called, theTeacher of that Church or Flock, which confitteth of M 2 fo
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