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Episcopal and Presbyterial government conjoined proposed as an expedient for the compromising of the…Episcopal and Presbyterial government conjoyned proposed as an expedient for the compremising of the…
Episcopal and Presbyterial government conjoined proposed as an expedient for the compromising of the differences, and preventing of those troubles about the matter of Church-Government / written in the late times by ... Ja. Usher ...Episcopal and Presbyterial government conjoyned proposed as an expedient for the compremising of the differences, and preventing of those troubles about the matter of Church-Government / written in the late times by ... Ja. Usher ...
London : s.n., 1679
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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.
I.
In every Parish the Rector or incumbent Pastor, together with the Churchwardens and Sidesmen may 1every week take notice of such as live scandalously in that Congregation, who are to receive such several ⟨p. 12⟩admonitions and reproofs, as the quality of their offence shall deserve; and if by this means they cannot be reclaimed, they may be presented unto the next monthly Synod; and in the mean time debarred by the Pastor from access to the Lords Table.
- 1The Parochial government answerable to the Church Session in Scotland.
II.
Whereas by a Statute in the 26th year of King Henry the eight (revived in the first of Queen Elizabeth) 1Suffragans are appointed to be erected in twenty six several places of this Kingdom, the number of them might very well be conformed unto the number of the several rural Deanries into which every Diocese is subdivided; which being done, the Suffragan (supplying the place of those who in the ancient Church were called Chorepiscopi) might every month assemble a Synod of all the Rectors, or Incumbent Pastors within the Precinct, and according to the Major part of their voices conclude all matters that should be brought into debate before them.