A55307:114
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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15. If the Bishops of the Church did vigilantly inspect both the Lives and Doctrine of the ⟨p. 73⟩Clergy, I do not see any great danger consequent to the Intrusion of some ill, and Erroneous Persons into the Sacred Function; for as soon as their Profaneness and Errors are manifest, they are liable to Admonition and Censure, and if they remain obstinate and incorrigible, they may be suspended, and removed from the Ministerial Office. This I do confess requires great Care and Intendance over the Inferior Clergy, which yet I think no more than is the duty of those that are the Overseers of God's House, and do or should watch for Souls. But alas! that the honour which attends the Episcopal Office, should be one thing, and the Labour that is annexed unto it another; that the former should be loved so much by some men in the World, who have no extraordinary kindness, if any at all, for the latter. Personally to inspect and superintend the Doctrine and Manners of the Clergy is a drudgery that these cannot bear, and must be done therefore by Commissaries and Officials, and Arch-Deacons, who think nothing penal, or worthy of rebuke in them, unless it be some defection in Conformity, nor nothing worthy of praise, unless it be the virtue of Canonical Obedience.
15. If the Bishops of the Church did vigilantly inspect both the Lives and Doctrine of the ⟨p. 73⟩Clergy, I do not see any great danger consequent to the Intrusion of some ill, and Erroneous Persons into the Sacred Function; for as soon as their Prophaneness and Errours are manifest, they are liable to Admonition and Censure, and if they remain obstinate and incorrigible, they may be suspended, and removed from the Ministerial Office. This I do confess requires great Care and Intendance over the Inferiour Clergy, which yet I think no more than is the duty of those that are the Overseers of God's House, and do or should watch for Souls. But alas! that the honour which attends the Episcopal Office, should be one thing, and the Labour that is annexed unto it another; that the former should be loved so much by some men in the World, who have no extraordinary kindness, if any at all, for the latter. Personally to inspect and superintend the Doctrine and Manners of the Clergy is a drudgery that these cannot bear, and must be done therefore by Commissaries and Officials, and Arch-Deacons, who think nothing penal, or worthy of rebuke in them, unless it be some defection in Conformity, nor nothing worthy of praise, unless it be the virtue of Canonical Obedience.