A01760:871
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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Of the power of the Keys and Ecclesiastical censures.
Of the power of the Keyes and Ecclesiasticall censures.
Ecclesiastical censures and punishments, wherewith Delinquents are bound, and from which when they turn penitents they are loosed, are of two sorts: either such as are common, and agree unto all, as Excommunication and Absolution; or such as are peculiar, and agree only to men of Ecclesiastical order, as Suspension, Deprivation, &c.
ECclesiasticall censures and punishments, wherewith Delinquents are bound, and from which when they turne penitents they are loosed, are of two sorts: either such as are common, and agree unto all, as Excommunication and Absolution; or such as are peculiar, and agree onely to men of Ecclesiasticall order, as Suspension, Deprivation, &c.
As touching the power of the Keys, to bind and loose, Excommunicate and absolve: first of all, Princes are to remember, that neither they may, by themselves exercise this power, (for iRegum est Corporalem irrogare paenam; Sacerdotum Spiritualem infer vindictam;) nor yet by their Deputes or Commissioners in their name, and with authority from them, because as they have not themselves the power of the Keys, so neither can they communicate the same unto others. Secondly, forasmuch as Princes are the wardens, defenders, and revengers of both the Tables, they ought therefore to provide and take course, that neither Laymen be permitted to have and exercise the power of Excommunication, nor yet that the Prelates themselves be suffered in their particular Dioceses, to appropriate this power and external jurisdiction, as peculiar to themselves: but that it remain in their hands to whom it pertaineth by Divine institution. What a woeful abuse is it, that in our neighbour Churches of England, and Ireland, the Bishops Vicar general, or Official, or Commissary, being oftentimes such a one as hath never