(III) XXIII. Hierom's [Common Prerbyterorttm Concilio Eeclefsa gubeinabantur,1 feconded by Chr)foffome and other Fathers, is a trite, but evident teftimony. XIV. That Presbyters had thePowerof Excommunications fee fullyproved by Caldermood, Altar. Damafc. p. 273. XV. Bafil's, Anaphora Bibl. Pat. Tom. 6. p. 22. makethevery Church to have Archpresbyters, Presbyters, and Deacons, making the Bithop to be but the Archpresbyter. CHAP. XIV. The Confeffions ofthegreateft andLearnedeft Prelatifts: I. Profile Churchof England doth publickly notifie her judgment, that 11 Church Government, Difcipline, and the power ofthe Keysis not a thing aliene fromor above theOrder ofthe Presbyters, but belongeth to their office. r. In that they allow Presbyters tobe members ofConvocations (ands that as chofen by the Presbyters.) And whereas it is Paid, that the Lower houle ofConvocation are but Advifers to the Upper, I anfwer, All together have but an advifing power to the King andParliament; But in that fort of power, the lower houfe.hath its part, as experience fheweth. 2. There are many exempt Jurifdi&ions in England, (as the Kings Chap- pel, The Deanry of.Windfor, and Wolverhampton, Bridgenorth, (.where fixPa- ri(hes are governed by a Court held by a Presbyter) and many more, which (hew that it is confluent with the Presbyters office. 3. The Archdeacons who are no Bi(hops exercife fome Government ; And fo do their Officials under them. The. Objetion from Deputation is an fwered. 4. The Surrogates of the Bi(hops, whether Vicar General, Principal Ofli- cial, or Commiffaries, are allowed a certain part ofgovernment. 5. They that give Lay-Chancellors the power ofJudicial Excommunication and Abfolution, cannot think aPresbyter uncapable ofit. 6. APresbyter proforma oft paffeth the fentence of Excommunication and Abfolutión in the Chancellors Court when he bath judgedit. 7. A Presbyter in the Church mull publifh that Excommunication and Ab- folution. S. Byallowing Presbyters to baptize, and to deliver the Lords Sapper, and to
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