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The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of…
The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard.
London: printed for John Crook, 1658
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3. That in this judgement of his he was not singular; Doctor Davenant, that pious, and Learned Bishop of Salisbury, consents with him in it. (in his determinations, q. 42. produceth the principal pf the Schoolmen, Gulielmus Parisiensis, Gerson, Durand, &c. Episcopatus non est ordo praecisè distinctus à sacerdotio simplici, &c. non est alia potestas ordinis in Episcopis quam Presbyteris, sed inest modo perfectiori. And declares it to be the general opinion of the ⟨p. 117⟩Schoolmen. Episcopatum ut distinguitur à simplici sacerdotio non non esse alium ordinem; sed eminentiorem quandam potestatem & dignitatem in eodem ordine sacerdotali, &c. And as he grants the Bishop to have dignitatem altiorem, potestatem majorem, &c. so doth the Primate in that he saith he hath a superiority in degree above a Presbyter, and that the Churches which have no Bishops, are thereby become very much defective in their Government; Both of them being far from a parity. And whereas the Primate saith, That in cases of necessity, where Bishops cannot be had, the Ordination by Presbyters standeth valid, Bishop Davenaut concurs with him also: That where Bishops were Heretical, or idolatrous, and refuse to ordain Orthodox Ministers, that in such and the like cases he saith: Si Orthodoxi Presbyteri (ne pereat Ecclesia) alios Presbyteros cogantur ordinare, ego non ⟨p. 118⟩ausim hujusmodi ordinations pronuntiare irritas, & innanes, &c. Necessitas non inscitè lex temporis appellatur, & in tali casu defendat id ad quod coegit, and produceth the opinion of Richardus Armachanus (one of this Primates Predecessors, and one of the most Learned men in his time) to be accordingly. Armachani opinio est, quod si omues Episcopi essent defuncti, sacerdotes minores possunt ordinare, & applies it to the like Protestant Churches, which the Primate mentions. Hac freti necessitate si Ecclesiae quaedam protestantium quae ordinationes ab Episcopis Papistis expectare non poterant consensu Presbyterorum suorum Presbyteros ordinarunt, non inde Episcopali dignitati praejudicasse, sed necessitati Ecclesiae obtemperasse judicandi sint, Thus much for Bishop Davenants concurrence, to which divers others might be added, as in special, Doctor Richard Field sometimes Dean of Gloucester, in his Learned Book of the Church, ⟨p. 119⟩lib. 3. cap. 39. and lib. 5. cap. 27.