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A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest…
A friendly trial of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulness of a stinted liturgy and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys: tending to satisfy the doubtful, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the University of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie of Cambridge for Edward Brewster, 1640
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The church cannot convey what she never had:1 But the church may choose her ministers;2 as the Papists say, The church doth choose the Pope: for the Cardinals do not choose the Pope by their authority, but of the church: Therefore the church conveyeth authority to her ministers.
The church cannot convey what she never had:1 But the church may chuse her ministers;2 as the Papists say, The church doth chuse the Pope: for the Cardinals do not chuse the Pope by their authority, but of the church: Therefore the church conveyeth authority to her ministers.
- 1Object. 1.
- 2Gratiam. Docret. dist. 79. can. 8. Quem universitatis consensus •legerit. •r. de Zabar. Car•. Florent. tract. De schism. Nomine universitatis debet intelligi universitas totius Christianitatis.
The church cannot virtually or formally convey what she never had,1 but ministerially she may, sc. as ministering to him who hath power and virtue of deriving it. Nothing can give that which it had not formally or virtually, unless it give it as an instrument to one who hath it; but so it may give what it never had, nor is capable of. A man not having a penny of his own, may give an hundred pounds, if the King make him his almoner: A steward may give all offices in his masters house, as ministerially executing his masters pleasure. Thus the church deriveth, as taking the person whom Christ describeth, and out of power will have placed in this or that office in the church. The