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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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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.
Whereas by a Statute in the 26th year of King Henry the eight (revived in the first of Queen Elizabeth) 1Suffiagans 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 Diocess 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.
- 1The Presbyterial monthly Synods, answer to the Scottish Presbyteries or Ecclesiastical meetings.
To this Synod the Rector and Church-Wardens might present such impenitent persons, as by admonition and suspension from the Sacrament, would not be reformed; who if they should still remain contumacious and incorrigible, the sentence of Excommunication might be decreed against them by the Synod, and accordingly be executed in the Parish where they lived.