CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church

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Those things then wherein the Ecclesiastical power is exercised, are the Preaching of the Word, the Administration of Sacraments, public Prayer and Thanksgiving, the Catechising and instructing of children and ignorant persons, the examination of those who are to come to the holy Communion, the Ecclesiastical Discipline, the Ordination of Ministers, and the abdication, deposing, and degrading of them (if they become like unsavoury salt) the deciding and determining of controversies of Faith and cases of Conscience, Canonical constitutions concerning the treasury of the Church and collections of the Faithful, as also concerning Ecclesiastical rites, or indifferent things, which pertain to the keeping of decency and order in the Church, according to the general rules of Christian love and prudence contained in the Word of God.

Those things then wherein the Ecclesiasticall power is exercised, are the Preaching of the Word, the Administration of Sacraments, publike Prayer and Thanksgiving, the Catechising and instructing of children and ignorant persons, the examination of those who are to come to the holy Communion, the Ecclesiasticall Discipline, the Ordination of Ministers, and the abdication, deposing, and degrading of them (if they become like unsavory salt) the deciding and determining of controversies of Faith and cases of Conscience, Canonicall constitutions concerning the treasury of the Church and collections of the Faithfull, as also concerning Ecclesiasticall rites, or indifferent things, which pertaine to the keeping of decency and order in the Church, according to the generall rules of Christian love and prudence contained in the Word of God.