A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Object. 4. This course may prove very dangerous for an apostatizing Congregation, for a people inclining to Heresy or Schism, will not consent to the admission of an orthodox and sound Minister. Answ. 1. The intrusion of Ministers against the Congregations will, doth more generally and universally draw after it, great evils and inconveniences, 2. The corruptions of many Patrons, and peradventure also some Presbyteries may be more powerful to intrude insufficient or unsound Ministers, then the unsoundness or error of this or that particular Congregation, can be to hinder the admission of them that are sound. 3. We shall heartily accord that a heretical or a Schismatical Church, hath not just right to the liberty and privilege of a sound Church. 4. Zanchius in ⟨p. 29⟩4. praec: col: 784. Would have a Congregation infected with Heresy or Superstition, before there be a Ministry settled among them, to be first convinced of their error, by some other Pastor sent unto them by the Christian Magistrate for a time, and extraordinarily as a kind of Evangelist. At vero saith he, cum constitutae sunt & formatae verae Ecclesiae, cur tune saltem non relinquitur illis libertas eligendi suos Pastores?

Object. 4. This course may prove very dangerous for an apostatizing Congregation, for a people inclining to Heresie or Schisme, will not consent to the admission of an orthodox and sound Minister. Answ. 1. The intrusion of Ministers against the Congregations will, doth more generally and universally draw after it, great evils and inconveniences, 2. The corruptions of many Patrons, and peradventure also some Presbyteries may be more powerfull to intrude insufficient or unsound Ministers, then the unsoundnesse or errour of this or that particular Congregation, can be to hinder the admission of them that are sound. 3. We shall heartily accord that a hereticall or a Schismaticall Church, hath not just right to the liberty and priviledge of a sound Church. 4. Zanchius in ⟨p. 29⟩4. praec: col: 784. Would have a Congregation infected with Heresie or Superstition, before there bee a Ministery setled among them, to be first convinced of their error, by some other Pastor sent unto them by the Christian Magistrate for a time, and extraordinarly as a kinde of Evangelist. At vero saith he, cum constitutae sunt & formatae verae Ecclesiae, cur tune saltem non relinquitur illis libertas eligendi suos Pastores?