(119) and lie in thename ofGod, when men bid me. The French Prie&did wifelier than fo, that being bid from thePope to Curfe and Excommunicate the Empe- rour, faid, Lknow not who it it that it in the right, and who it inothe wrong, but' I do Excommunicate himthat is iñ the wrongwhoever he be 2. Or elfe, it will follow that I am boundto finand damn my foul there- by, whenever theBishop will command me which is acontradiétion. 3. Or elfe it will follow that I am a bealt, that am not to judge or know what I do,' and therefore my asare neither fin nor duty. q.. If he, have .hot the Keys to ufe publickly in fore Ecclefe he bath no power of Excommunication and Reftitution at all ::For to Excommuni- cater is publickly to notifie to the Church, that this perfon is none of themy . nor to be communicated with, and to charge them to avoid his company. 5. The Bithops themfelves put the Presbyters to proclaim or read theEx- commuiication: and ifthis beany Minifleriai or Paftöral acct, certainly 'it is inforoEcclefie. 6. Mott oftheAdsbefore namedas theirconceffions, tcybe in theConvo- cation, mac. are adts rn f ro pkbli,. 7. The full proofs before broughtfrom Antiquity, ofPresbyters fittingin Councils, Judging, Excommunicating, &c. are of/niblick, notprivate e eer cife.ofthe Keys. 8. They are the fame Keys or Office power' which-Chrift bath committed to thePaftors, even the Guidance ofhis Church, to feed his lambs; Andubi- Lexnon diftinguit non eft di tinguendum. Where doth Chrift:orScripture fay, You, [hail ufe the Keys ofChurch-power privately, butnot in the Church, or pub- lickly ? 9. All this 'hiving agáinft Power in the Minifters of Chrift, is but firiving_ againft their dotty, work; and thc ende andbenefitr of it : Hethat hash no Power for publick difcipline,háth noobligation toufe it ; and fo he is to negle it : And this is it that the Devil would have, to keep a thoufand or many hundred Paftors in a Diocefe from doing the publick work of Difcipline : And as ifhe could confine Preaching to Diocefans only(And I verily believethey arebetter ofthe two. at Preaching, thanat Difcipline) he knoweth that it is butfew fouls ofmany thoufandsthat would be taught : Even fo when he canconfine Church difcipline to the Diocefanes, he knoweth how little of it wilt be done. And who will ufe his wit, learning and zeal, to plead his caufe, andhis parts and office thus to ferre his defigns and gratifie him, who conliderethwhat it is to be a Bithop, a Chriftian, or a man ? CHAß
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