A69533:932
Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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.
Sect. 56. This Cyprian fully shows in the fore-mentioned Ep. 68. p, 201. persuading the people to shun the unworthy though they were Ordained by Bishops, adding [Ordinari nonnunquam indignos, non secundum Dei voluntatem, sed secundum humanam praesumptionem; & haec Deo displicere, quae non veniant ex legitima & justa Ordinatione, Deus ipse manifestat, &c. —] Necessity may justify some things that otherwise would be irregularities: but when [Per urbes singulas (that is, in every Church) Ordinati sint Episcopi, in aetate antiqui, in fide integri, in pressura probati, in persecutione proscripti, ille super •os creare alios pseudo-Episcopos audeat] this is a fact that the people should disown. And [Qui neque unitatem spiritus nec conjunctionem pacis observat, & se ab Ecclesiae vinculo, atque à Sacerd•tum collegio separat, Episcopo nec potestatem potest habere, nec honorem, qui Episcopatus nec unitatem voluit tenere, nec pacem. Cyprian Epist. 52. ad Antonian.
Sect. 56. This Cyprian fully shews in the fore-mentioned Ep. 68. p, 201. perswading the people to shun the unworthy though they were Ordained by Bishops, adding [Ordinari nonnunquam indignos, non secundum Dei voluntatem, sed secundum humanam praesumptionem; & haec Deo displicere, quae non veniant ex legitima & justa Ordinatione, Deus ipse manifestat, &c. —] Necessity may justifie some things that otherwise would be irregularities: but when [Per urbes singulas (that is, in every Church) Ordinati sint Episcopi, in aetate antiqui, in fide integri, in pressura probati, in persecutione proscripti, ille super •os creare alios pseudo-Episcopos audeat] this is a fact that the poeple should disown. And [Qui neque unitatem spiritus nec conjunctionem pacis observat, & se ab Ecclesiae vinculo, atque à Sacerd•tum collegio separat, Episcopo nec potestatem potest habere, nec honorem, qui Episcopatus nec unitatem voluit tenere, nec pacem. Cyprian Epist. 52. ad Antonian.
Sect. 57. Prop. 5. Solemn Investiture is the last part of Ordination, by which the man that by consent of the people and himself, and by the Pastors Approbation, had received from Christ a Right to the Power and Honour, and Privileges, and an Obligation to the Duties of the Office, is solemnly introduced and put in Possession of the place.