A01760:905
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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But ofttimes the matter is of such difficulty or importance, that the Bishop and the Presbytery may not give out an peremptory sentence of Suspension or Deprivation, htill the matter be brought to the Synod of the province, iwhere according to the ancient order the matter is to be handled, not by the censure of one Bishop, but by the judgement of the whole Clergy gathered together.
But oftimes the matter is of such difficulty or importance, that the Bishop and the Presbitery may not giveout an peremptory sentence of Suspension or Deprivation, htill the matter be brought to the Synod of the province, iwhere according to the auncient order the matter is to be handled, not by the censure of one Bishop, but by the judgement of the whole Cleargie gathered togither.
- hFenner. Theol. lib. 7 c. 7. p. 153.
- iHemming enchir. class. 3. cap. 11. p. 39•, 91
Princes therefore may not suffer Bishops to usurp the power of Suspending and Depriving at their pleasure, and whensoever they commit any such tyranny in smiting of their fellow servants, it is the part of Princes to cause these things to be redressed, and for this end graciously to receive the grievances of oppressed Ministers. The Arians of old being assembled in a Council at Antioch, kdecreed, that if any Ecclesiastical Person, should without the advice and the letters of the Bishops of the Province, and chiefly of the Metropolitan, go to the Emperor to put up any grievance unto him, he should be cast out, not only from the holy Communion, but from his proper dignity which he had in the Church.