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An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…
An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his writings. By John Davenport BD.An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of VV.B. Also an answer to Mr. I.D. touching his report of some passages. His allegation of Scriptures against the baptising of some kind of infants. His protestation about the publishing of his wrightings. By Iohn Davenporte BD.
Rotterdam: printed by Isaac van Waesberghe, 1636Rotterdam: printed by Isaack van Waesberghe, 1636
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, By the power of freely choosing, I mean, that no power can limit and determine them, either, in way of restraint, to hinder their enjoyment of one that is fit for them, when they have, by consent, chosen him, or, in way of compulsion, to constrain them to wave such a choice, being made by them, for the putting of some other upon them, whom they do not desire, or affect.
Secondly, By the power of freely choosing, I meane, that no power can limit and determine them, either, in way of restraint, to hinder theyr injoyment of one that is fitt for them, when they have, by consent, chosen him, or, in way of compulsion, to constraine them to wave such a choyse, being made by them, for the putting of some other upon them, whom they doe not desire, or affect.
In both:1 I intend no other thing then the African Synod intended, in Cyprian, when they said. Plebs maximè habet potestatem, vel eligendi dignos Sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi: quod & ipsum videmus de divinâ authoritate descendere, &c. The whole Church principally hath power, either to choose worthy ministers, or to refuse those that are unworthy: which very thing we see to descend upon them by Gods ordinance. To which purpose also the Professors of Leiden, distinguishing between Election and Ordination,2 conclude, that jus pastores eligendi est penes Ecclesiam, ac proinde plebi commune cum presbyteris. Jus eos ordinandi, solis presbyteris est proprium, &c. The right of choosing their pastors is in the Church, and therefore common to the people with the Elders. The right of ordaining them is proper to the Elders.
In boath:1 I intend no other thing then the Affrican Synod intended, in Cyprian, when they said. Plebs maximè habet potestatem, vel eligendi dignos Sacerdotes, vel indignos recusandi: quod & ipsum videmus de divinâ authoritate descendere, &c. The wholl Church principally hath power, either to choose worthy ministers, or to refuse those that are unworthy: which very thing we see to descend upon them by Gods ordinance. To which purpose also the Professours of Leyden, distinguishing betweene Election and Ordination,