In the Church are used exhortations, chastisements, and divine censure. For judgment is given with great advice as among those who are certain they are in the sight of God; and it is the chiefest foreshowing of the judgment which is to come, if any man have so offended that he be banished from the Communion of Prayer, and of the Assembly, and of all holy Fellowship. The Presidents that bear Rule therein, are certain approved Elders, who have obtained this honour, not by reward, but by a good report; who were no other (as he himself elsewhere intimateth) but those ffrom whose hands they used to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist. For with the Bishop who was the chief President (and therefore styled by the same Tertullian in another place gSummus Sacerdos for distinction sake) the rest of the Dispensers of the Word and Sacraments joined in the common government of the Church; and therefore, where in matters of Ecclesiastical judicature, Cornelius Bishop of Rome used the received form of hgathering together the Presbyters, of what persons that did consist, Cyprian sufficiently declareth, when he wisheth him to read his letters ito the flourishing Clergy which there did preside or rule with him, the presence of the Clergy being thought to be so requisite in matters of Episcopal audience, ⟨p. 11⟩that in the fourth Council of Carthage, it was concluded, kThat the Bishop might hear no mans cause without the presence of his Clergy, and that otherwise the Bishops sentence should be void, unless it were confirmed by the presence of the Clergy, which we find also to be inserted into the Cannons of lEgbert, who was Arch-Bishop of Tork in the Saxons times, and afterwards into the Body of the mCanon Law it self.
In the Church are used exhortations, chastisements, and divine censure. For judgment is given with great advice as among those who are certain they are in the sight of God; and it is the chiefest foreshewing of the judgment which is to come, if any man have so offended that he be banished from the Communion of Prayer, and of the Assembly, and of all holy Fellowship. The Presidents that bear Rule therein, are certain approved Elders, who have obtained this honour, not by reward, but by a good report; who were no other (as he himself elsewhere intimateth) but those ffrom whose hands they used to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist. For with the Bishop who was the chief President (and therefore stiled by the same Tertullian in another place gSummus Sacerdos for distinction sake) the rest of the Dispensers of the Word and Sacraments joyned in the common government of the Church; and therefore, where in matters of Ecclesiastical judicature, Cornelius Bishop of Rome used the received form of hgathering together the Presbyters, of what persons that did consist, Cyprian sufficiently declareth, when he wisheth him to read his letters ito the flourishing Clergy which there did preside or rule with him, the presence of the Clergy being thought to be so requisite in matters of Episcopal audience, ⟨p. 11⟩that in the fourth Councel of Carthage, it was concluded, kThat the Bishop might hear no mans cause without the presence of his Clergy, and that otherwise the Bishops sentence should be void, unless it were confirmed by the presence of the Clergy, which we find also to be inserted into the Cannons of lEgbert, who was Arch-Bishop of Tork in the Saxons times, and afterwards into the Body of the mCanon Law it self.
- fNec de aliorum manibus quampraesidentium sumimus, Id. de corona militis, cap. 3.
- gDandiquidem Baptismi habet jus summus sacerdos, qui est Episcopus, dehinc Presbyteri & Diaconi. Id. de Bapt. cap. 17.
- hOmni actu ad me perlato placuit contrahi Presbyterium, Cornel apud Cypr. ep, 46.
- iFlorentissimo illic clero te cum praesidenti. Cyp. ep. 55. ad Cornel.
- kUt Episcopus nullus causam audiat absque praesentia Clericorum suorum alioquin irrita erit sententia Episcopi nisi clericorum praesenti â confirmetur, Conc. Car. thag. cap. 23.
- lExcirption. Egberti cap 43.
- m15 q. 7. cap. Nullus.
