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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
Chapter 14: Whether the National Church of England be at the present of a sound Constitution. And w…
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§ 30. X. Bishops should usually ordain in Synods or with their concurrence: Or at least with such as the Synods choose to represent them.
§ 31. XI. Parish Churches must be acknowledged true Churches, and the Presbyters to be Episcopi Gregis, and the Incumbent that hath Curates to be Episcopus Praeses, as well as the Diocesans to be General or Archbishops. And Ordination by President Bishops not called Null, or said to be no Episcopal Ordination: But the corruption of the Ministry by unqualified men is so dangerous a thing, that if the Supreme Power give the Diocesan a Negative power as of the Quorum, without whom no Ordination shall entitle any man to any Benefice, (leaving Incumbents only to choose their own Curates, and to concur with the Diocesan in other Ordinations) there will be no just cause of refusing such Diocesans Power or Ordination.
§ 31. XI. Parish Churches must be acknowledged true Churches, and the Presbyters to be Episcopi Gregis, and the Incumbent that hath Curates to be Episcopus Praeses, as well as the Diocesans to be General or Archbishops. And Ordination by President Bishops not called Null, or said to be no Episcopal Ordination: But the corruption of the Ministry by unqualified men is so dangerous a thing, that if the Supreme Power give the Diocesane a Negative power as of the Quorum, without whom no Ordination shall entitle any man to any Benefice, (leaving Incumbents only to choose their own Curates, and to concur with the Diocesan in other Ordinations) there will be no just cause of refusing such Diocesans Power or Ordination.
§ 32. XII. An utterly insufficient, heretical, malignant, ungodly scandalous Minister is not to be maintained nor tolerated; and due means must be used to keep and cast such out.