C98] Holy DifciP. dory the mots Voices are to be yielded Sub. Tit. o Confi{tories. unto. The only Certainty, a Perfon accufed could have, was, that his Cafe would be determined by the Majority of Ruling Elders prefent in the Con- - fiílory ; but upon what Laws or Max- ims they would proceed, he was en- tirely ignorant. The Survey of the pretended Holy Difcipline publith'd 1593, has proved this from the Pa- trons of that Form, and their Endea- vours to abolifh all the received Ec- clefiaflical Laws and Canons, without Vid. Admon. fubftituting any other in their Room, is a farther Confirmation of it. N's Hiftory And, what is this, but to ere& a high P. 414. Commiton in every Parifh, not 44. whom Mr. M. complains of, but halfa Dozen fovereign Judges are to proceed againft a Party accufedby one of them- felves by any Ways and Means they can invent, and upon any Maxims of their own which they are pleated to call Scripture. This leads us to another difagreeable Circumftance in this Dif- cipline, the RulingElders are to judge and cerfure one another. This gives great Opportunity of favouring each other, and lays them under a Tempta- tion to do fo, as each may expel the fame Indulgence from his Brethren in the like Circu ltances ; nor does it at all
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