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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	apostle_n	church_n	elder_n	5,779	5	10.2377	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17976	Iurisdiction regall, episcopall, papall Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded vpon the iurisdiction of temporall princes, and of the Church. The intrusion is discouered, and the peculiar and distinct iurisdiction to each properly belonging, recouered. Written by George Carleton.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.	1610 (1610)	STC 4637; ESTC S107555	241,651	329

power of the spirit tooke vpon them power aboue the Ciuill Magistrate practising wholly coactiue power which they called Spirituall when they had forsaken the power of the spirit and reiected it from them 5. The Iurisdiction which the Apostles practised was partly from the commission of Christ spirituall partly from the law of Nature and from the example of that gouernment which was established in the Church of the Iewes The things which belonged to Apostolicall Iurisdiction either concerned the gouernment of the ministery or of the whole Church Touching the gouernement of the ministery these things belonged to the Apostles so long as they liued and afterward to Bishops their successours First a power to ordaine ministers Thus did Paul and Barnabas when they called Churches through Lycaonia Pisidia and Pamphylia They ordained Elders in euery Church Elders that is Pastors Preachers to preserue the Doctrine continually which the Apostles had once planted And this charge to ordaine Elders or Priests did the Apostles leaue also to them that succeeded in the gouernement of the Church This commission Saint Paul gaue to Titus For this cause I left thee in Crete that thou shouldest continue to redresse the things that remaine and ordaine Elders in euery city as I appointed thee which ordaining signifieth also institution in the place or cure they ministred in 6. The Apostles had also in themselues and left to their successours power and Iurisdiction to command those Pastors which thus they had ordained to preach the truth without mixture of false doctrines This power as Saint Paul had in himselfe so he left the same to Timothie and consequently to others As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus when I departed to Macedonia so doe that thou maist command some that they teach no other doctrine These were the principall parts of Iurisdiction which the Apostles left to their successors to continue in the Church for euer For the end and vse of this gouernment is perpetuall as to ordaine Preachers and to see that they so ordained should teach the truth without heresie It followeth certainely that such gouernours as the Apostles themselues ordained in the Church for these perpetuall vses are to remaine perpetuall gouernours in the Church Thus was the gouernement of Bishops placed by the Apostles to stand and continue till the end of the world because the Apostles placed such for the ordination of ministers and the preseruation of true Doctrines For they who aunswere that these offices and places wherin the Apostles placed Timothie and Titus were either extraordinarie or to indure for a short time do not consider the end and vse of these places which end and vse is neither extraordinary nor temporary but ordinary and perpetuall For ministers must be ordained commanded to preserue the truth without heresie as long as the Church standeth Then the necessitie and vse of the ends will prooue the like necessitie and vse of these gouernours which by the Apostles were placed for these endes 7. Another part of this Iurisdiction and depending vpon the last was that which the Apostle leaueth in commission to Titus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to stoppe their mouthes For which cause the Angell of the Church of Thyatira is reprooued by Christ because he suffered a false Prophetesse to teach and to deceiue the people and to make them commit fornication and to eate meat sacrificed to idols If Titus be commaunded to put some to silence and the other reprooued for suffering a false teacher to teach then the gouernours of the Church haue authoritie and Iurisdiction in these things but how farre it is extended we shall consider hereafter But because it may be questioned whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be to silence ministers or to conuince them by argument To this wee ' aunswere that albe it wee denie not conuiction by reason to be also included in the word yet there is a further meaning of iudiciall proceeding by authoritie heere vnderstood which thing will appeare by conference of this and other places For Saint Paul hauing first declared that he left Titus at Crete to ordaine Elders describeth what manner of men they must be that are so to be ordained For a ' Bishop must be vnreproueable c. Then he declareth that many be otherwise for there are many disobedient and vaine talkers and deceiuers c. If the question be demaunded what shall be done to these deceiuers the wordes immediatly following containe an aunswere whose mouthes must be stopped So that the sense of these words is the same with that which hee saith to Timothie charging him to command some that they teach no other Doctrine Then the word containeth not only conuiction by argument but Iurisdiction also For conuiction by argument onely would not haue serued to suppresse the false Prophetesse of Thyatyra And if a minister be accused of heresie or such like he was to be iudged by such as were set in chiefe authoritie in the Clergie For that there was a consistory and iudiciall proceedings set vp it is euident and no lesse euident that the Bishop was iudge Against an Elder saith S. Paul to Timothie receiue none accusation but vnder two or three witnesses Now he that is appointed to heare accusations to receiue the testimonies of witnesses is placed in a place of iudgement with Iurisdiction and therefore hath authoritie not onely to conuince by argument but also to proceed iudicially against false teachers and to put them to silence 8. Thus farre was Iurisdiction practised ouer ministers the things which follow touched the whole Church Another part of Iurisdiction practised by the Apostles touching the Church in generall was to call Councels for the determination of such controuersies as were raised vp by them that troubled the doctrines of the truth and peace of the Church Such was the Councell gathered by the Apostles Act 15. Consisting of Apostles and Elders that is of persons Ecclesiasticall wherin sentence proceeded after good deliberation and great disputation This is the greatest power or Iurisdiction of the Church because the whole or many chiefe parts together is greater then any one part 9. Further concerning the extension of this Iurisdiction it cannot be denied but that there is a power in the Church not only internall but also of externall Iurisdiction of internall power there is no question made Externall Iurisdiction being vnderstood all that is practised in externall Courts or consistories is either definitiue or mulctatiue Authority definitiue in matters of faith and religion belongeth to the Church Mulctatiue power may be vnderstood either as it is referred to spirituall censures or as it is with coaction as it standeth in spirituall censures it is the right of the Church and was practised by the Church when the Church was without a Christian Magistrate and since But coactiue Iurisdiction was neuer practised by the Church when the Church was without