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authority_n	according_a	church_n	word_n	2,966	5	4.1215	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86477	Mr. Hollis his speech to the Lords in Parliament concerning peace. With a motion for some course to be taken for repairing of trade, that so poore tradesmen may be preserved to hold out during these troublesome times. Whereunto is added a relation of a vision of blood in the skie, that appeared about Redding on Tuesday night last.	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2478; Thomason E90_18; ESTC R19938	15,536	34

hasten it by the advice of both the Colloques Art 3. In every Synode there shall be chosen a Minister to governe the action and a Scribe to register the actions Art 4. The Minister of the place where the assembly is made shall make a prayer in the beginning of the first sitting Art 5. The Colloques shall mutually advertise one another of the generall things they have to propose to the Synode in commodious time to this end that every one may have time to think of it more ripely And they shall give some advertisement thereof before the Colloque which goeth next before the Synode so farre as they may And as for things of smaller importance they shall be communicated of in the day of the first sitting These Articles touching the Discipline are so set downe that so much and so farre as they are grounded upon the Word of God they are immoveable And as for the points that are meerely Ecclesiasticall that is to say framed and set downe for the commoditie of the Church according to the circumstance of persons time and place they may be changed by the same authoritie they have been instituted Here followeth the manner of Installing the Officers of the Church The Promise in generall YOu promise before God his elect Angels and his Church that you will serve him faithfully in this Office taking heed to your selfe to this end that in this vocation of God you may walke worthily so as it becommeth a good servant of God without abusing it to serve your owne affections or to be pleasing unto men but that you use it with a good consciente carrying all that you doe in this office to the glory of God and to the edification of the Church principally of that over which you are set giving in all things good example unto all namely in keeping and taking good heed to the pollicy as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill procuring the good and honour of the Kingdome of England and of the I le taking paines that the people may live in good order peace and union one with another and in subjection and obedience to the Government of his Majestie the right Worshipfull the Governours his Lieftenant the Bailiefe and the Justices not consenting to any thing which is repugnant to the Lawes Civill Pollicy of the Countrey and Kingdome and the Ecclesiasticall Censures All which you shall doe so farre as your office doth require that is to say without being prejudiciall to the libertie of a good conscience Furthermore You shall not abandon or leave off your Charge for any discontentment or tediousnesse or any thing whatsoever unlesse it be by the consent of the Consistory or other to whom it appertaineth At which Consistory you shall attend if there be no hinderance the Sunday after the Catechisme to handle the Ecclesiasticall affaires And you shall take heed of not disclosing any thing that hath been handled to the parties or any other persons unlesse it be that they ought to know it in paine of being rejected from the Company Remembring alwayes that you must render an account of the charge which hath been committed unto you to the end that you may heare his most amiable voice It is well done good servant enter into the joy of thy Lord Finally that which toucheth you most neerly in regard of the particular charge you are called unto Promises Common to Ministers of the Word of God and to the Elders YOu doe promise that you will feed and governe the flocke of Christ which is committed unto you which is his house according to the pollicy that our Lord Jesus Christ hath established in his Church in having a care not by constraint but willingly and with a ready courage not for gaine or unseemely honour but onely having regard to the glory of God and to the salvation of the people Not raigning over the Church but in humilitie and feare following the Word of God You promise also to have an eye and watch upon the flocke to admonish and comfort in particular according as neede requires Also to reprehend the private faults and to bring to the Consistorie the publick faults to the end the scandalls of the Church may be hindred You shall attend the Colloques and Synodes at all times when you shall be deputed thereunto revealing nothing of that which hath been handled to the parties or any of the persons unlesse they ought to know it upon paine to be rejected from the company You promise to take carefull heed of the accompts of the Deacons at the Communion day or at least at the Communion dayes of September and Easter and that after the second Sermon of the Sabbath in which day ordinarily there is no Consistorie kept or else the Sunday following according to the opportunitie of the Church A Promise particular to the Minister of the Word YOu promise that you will deliver the most holy Word and Sacraments of God in all faithfulnesse purenesse and reverence that you will take paines in teaching the people which are capable in convincing those which contradict in casting downe the proud in erecting and lifting up the humble in bringing againe those that are strayed out of the way in cutting rightly the word of truth as a good workman which needeth not be ashamed and as a good and wise Steward of the House of the Lord distributing the spirituall meate as well to every one apart according to his abilitie as in common to all the family You shall doe this in all diligence being earnest in time and out of time And for this cause you promise to follow with all care and diligence all meanes and helpes of studie things proper to execute honour your said Ministery which notwithstanding shall be done in all simplicitie and easinesse as well in words as in sentences to this end that the rudest and most unlearned and the Church may be edified by it Above all you shall imploy your selfe in studying the holy Scriptures to this end that being well instructed touching the Kingdome of Heaven you may be like a good Father of a Family who is able to draw out of his treasure both old and new things A Promise particular to the Elders YOu promise to be assistant unto the Ministers of the Word for the Government of the Church over the which you are appointed and shall take heed to the Ministery of the Word First that the Church be not unprovided and that being established it may be reverenced and therefore you shall have an eye to them as well for the holy doctrine as for their holinesse of life and afterwards upon the rest of the Church especially upon those which are committed more neerly to your charge And therefore if there shall come any discord between any of your quarter you shall endeavour to accord them by good and brotherly advisement and if they will not obey you shall summon them to come to the Consistorie to have some convenient remedy thereof