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A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on…A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on…
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of schism, by John Owen ...A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
Chapter 2 › Contradiction 4: Touching the fourth Contradiction.
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Touching the fourth Contradiction.
The fourth Contradiction is thus laid out.
4. Ordination is a work of Rule. The way, pag. 49. Ordination and Jurisdiction (both Acts of Rule) pertain indifferently to all the Presbyters. ibid. pag. 49. | 4. As for Election, & Ordination of Officers these things the brethren may do (if need be) without Officers The way, pag. 45. 101. | 4. Ordination is not an Act of Supreme Jurisdiction, but of Order rather, Hooker's Survey part. 2. 75.
4. Ordination is a work of Rule. The way, pag. 49. Ordination and Jurisdiction (both Acts of Rule) pertaine indifferently to all the Presbyters. ibid. pag. 49. | 4. As for Election, & Ordination of Officers these things the brethren may doe (if need be) without Officers The way, pag. 45. 101. | 4. Ordination is not an Act of Supreme Jurisdiction, but of Order rather, Hooker's Survey part. 2. 75.
Ans. Ordination, They that make the least of it make it an Act of Prayer, & such Prayer, by which the less is blessed of ⟨p. 31⟩the greater; as it is in all Prayer which is Joined with Imposition of hands; which Argueth, it is an Act of majority of Power: and majority of Power may without a Solecism be called, Rule: though not office-Rule, yet Honourable preeminence. I no where call it an Act of Supreme Jurisdiction which is that Mr Hooker Denies; and seemeth to Deny it, not Positively neither, but comparatively rather. Ordination (saith he) is not an Act of Supreme Jurisdiction, but of Order rather, then there is no contradiction here. Nor will it be found in the other clause, for though Ordination and Jurisdiction be said (in the Way pag, 49.) to pertain indifferently to all the Presbyters: yet that is expressly spoken in opposition to the Lord Bishops, who usurped both into their own hands, as their peculiar prerogative: and though I say, (else where in the Way) that in Election & Ordination of Officers, the Brethren may act (if need be) without Officers: yet the very word of limitation (if need be) Argueth,