A01760:840
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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1. lThe whole Church hath the power of Ordination communicated ⟨p. 170⟩to her from Christ, to whom it wholly pertaineth. For, 1. It is most certain (and among our Writers agreed upon,) that to the whole Church collectively taken, Christ hath delivered the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, with power to use the same, promising lthat whatsoever the Church bindeth on Earth, shall be bound in Heaven, & whatsoever she looseth on Earth, shall be loosed in Heaven. Therefore he hath also delivered unto the whole Church, power to call & ordain Ministers for using the keys: otherwise the promise might be made void, because the Ministers which she now hath, may fail. 2. Christ hath appointed a certain and a ordinary way, how the Church may provide her self of Ministers, and so may have ever in her self the means of grace and comfort sufficient to her self, according to that of mthe Apostle, All things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollo, &c. But if she had not the power of ordaining Ministers unto her self, when she needeth, then might she some times be deprived of such an ordinary & certain way of providing her self. 3. When the Ministry of the Church faileth or is wanting, Christian people have power to exercise that act of ordination, which is necessary to the making of a Minister. nD. Fulke showeth out of Ruffinus and Theodoret, that Aede• and •rumentius, being but private men, by preaching of the Gospel, converted a great Nation of the Indians. And that the Nation of the Iberians being converted by a captive woman, the King and the Queen became Teachers of the Gospel to the people. And might not then the Church in those places, both elect and ordain Ministers?
1. lThe wholle Church hath the power of Ordination communicated