A86000:32
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded…
A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late General Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianism, independency, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1647
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That the distinction of that twofold Church censure was allowed also by antiquity, it may be sufficiently clear to him who will consult the sixty one Canon of the sixth general Synod, with the Annotations of Zonaras and Balsomon; also the thirteenth Canon of the eighth Synod (which is termed the first and second) with the Notes of Zonaras; Yea besides, even the penitents also themselves of the fourth degree, or [Greek or Hebrew], that is, which were in the consistency, were ⟨p. 6⟩suspended from the Lords Supper, though as to other things of the same condition with the faithful; For to the communion also of Prayers, and so to all privileges of Ecclesiastical society, the Eucharist alone excepted, they were thought to have right: So sacred a thing was the Eucharist esteemed. See also beside others, Cyprian 1. Book. Epist. 11. That Dionysius the Author of the Ecclesiastic Hierarchy. Chap. 3. Part. 3. Basil. Epist. to Amphilochius. Can. 4. Ambros. lib. 2. De officiis, Chap. 27. Augustine in his book against the Donatists, after the conference, Chap. 4. Chrysostom Homil. 83. in Matth. Gregor. the great Epist. lib. 2. Chap 65. and 66. Walafridus Strabo of Ecclesiastical matters. Chap. 17.
That the distinction of that twofold Church censure was allowed also by antiquity, it may be sufficiently clear to him who will consult the sixtie one Canon of the sixth generall Synode, with the Annotations of Zonaras and Balsomon; also the thirteenth Canon of the eighth Synode (which is termed the first and second) with the Notes of Zonaras; Yea besides, even the penitents also themselves of the fourth degree, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is, which were in the consistency, were ⟨p. 6⟩