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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let our present Diocesans therefore, as such, acknowledge themselves the King's Officers, and by Deputation from Him, let them exercise such Authority, circa sacra, as appertains to Kings: Let them enjoy their Honour and Revenues, as a Reward of their Service: Let the Powers granted by Christ to such Bishops, as I have above conceded lawful, and their Presbyters, be left inviolable: And let our Diocesans supervise them in the Exercise of them; and see that they neither neglect, nor abuse them: And all our Controversies about Church-Government, will come to an end. Such Churches as should be thought worthy of Toleration, as well as those that have the Approbation of Authority, would submit to such an Episcopacy.
Let our present Diocesans therefore, as such, acknowledg themselves the King's Officers, and by Deputation from Him, let them exercise such Authority, circa sacra, as appertains to Kings: Let them enjoy their Honour and Revenues, as a Reward of their Service: Let the Powers granted by Christ to such Bishops, as I have above conceded lawful, and their Presbyters, be left inviolable: And let our Diocesans supervise them in the Exercise of them; and see that they neither neglect, nor abuse them: And all our Controversies about Church-Government, will come to an end. Such Churches as should be thought worthy of Toleration, as well as those that have the Approbation of Authority, would submit to such an Episcopacy.
When it shall please God therefore to send us a Parliament, that are able to distinguish wisely betwixt, Tolerable and Intolerable Opinions and Persons; and so by Law to permit to the One the Liberty of their Assemblies, and to restrain the Other; and shall then prepare a Bill for Declaring the Constitution of the Church, as National; making the King to be Head of all the Congregations, which shall be Tolerated, as well as of those which are Parochial; and the Diocesan Bishops to be His Officers or Delegates, for keeping good Order amongst them all; leaving to the Pastor of every Parish or Congregation that Power, which Christ hath committed to him for Feeding and Ruling the Flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made Him Overseer; without confounding this Internal Power of His, with the External of the Other, derived from the King; but preserving the Rights of both so, that the One be not swallowed up of the Other (Nor forgetting the Concession of a sort of Episcopacy, to perform the ordinary Work of the Apostles and Evangelists, in that Multiplication of Supervisors over the Parochial-Clergy, which I propose also in these Papers); then shall the Grounds be laid for a firm and lasting Concord in the Nation, about the Matter of Religion.