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: 5. People do often err in their choice, and cannot judge of the qualifications and abilities of Pastors, but follow blindly the humours of their Lords or leaders. Answ: 1. We must believe what Christ saith, John 10, 4, 5. That his sheep know his voice, and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him. 2. There are also in Presbyteries and in all Judicatories, some leading men whose judgement is much respected and hearkened unto. 3. He that followeth another is ever blind: A people may follow leading m•n; and yet see with their own eyes too. 4. When Bellarmine objecteth that a people cannot judge, whether a man be fit for the Ministry, Junius animad: Contr: 5. lib: 1. cap: 7. not: 24. Answereth that the Congregation judgeth not simply and absolutely whether one be fit for the Ministry, but whether he be fit to serve in the Ministry among them. Which two are so different, that of two men offered to a Congregation, he that is absolutely and simply the best qualified for the Ministry, is not to be for that cause admitted hic & nunc, but hee who is fittest for that Congregation. Now a rude and ignorant people can judge which of the two speaketh best to their capacity and edification. 5. When any Congregation makes choice of an unfit or dangerous person, against whom there is just exception to be made, they must not therefore be robbed of their right, but called upon to make a better choice: This right people had from a Pope, Greg: Mag: Epist: lib. 6. Epist: 38. Habitatores Lucensis civitatis quendam ad nos Presbyterum adduxerunt, quì ⟨p. 30⟩eis debuisset Episcopus ordinari, Sed quia mimine dignus inventus est nec diu sine proprio possunt consistere sacerdote: a nobis admoniti in se•inio promiserunt alium studiose qu•rere, &c.

Object: 5. People do often erre in their choise, and cannot judge of the qualifications and abilities of Pastors, but follow blindly the humors of their Lords or leaders. Answ: 1. We must beleeve what Christ saith, Iohn 10, 4, 5. That his sheep know his voice, and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him. 2. There are also in Presbyteries and in all Judicatories, some leading men whose judgement is much respected and hearkened unto. 3. Hee that followeth another is ever blind: A people may follow leading mn; and yet see with their own eyes too. 4. When Bellarmine objecteth that a people cannot judge, whether a man be fit for the Ministery, Iunius animad: Contr: 5. lib: 1. cap: 7. not: 24. Answereth that the Congregation judgeth not simply and absolutly whether one be fit for the Ministery, but whether he be fit to serve in the Ministery among them. VVhich two are so different, that of two men offered to a Congregation, he that is absolutely and simply the best qualifyed for the Ministery, is not to bee for that cause admitted hic & nunc, but hee who is fittest for that Congregation. Now a rude and ignorant people can judge which of the two speaketh best to their capacity and edificatition. 5. VVhen any Congregation makes choise of an unfit or dangerous person, against whom there is just exception to be made, they must not therefore be robbed of their right, but called upon to make a better choise: This right people had from a Pope, Greg: Mag: Epist: lib. 6. Epist: 38. Habitatores Lucensis civitatis quendam ad nos Presbyterum adduxerunt, quì