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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94805	A directory of church-government. Anciently contended for, and as farre as the times would suffer, practised by the first non-conformists in the daies of Queen Elizabeth. Found in the study of the most accomplished divine, Mr. Thomas Cartwright, after his decease; and reserved to be published for such a time as this. Published by authority.	Travers, Walter, 1547 or 8-1635. De disciplina ecclesiæ sacra, ex Dei verba descripta.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1645 (1645)	Wing T2066; Thomason E269_17; ESTC R212376	12,368	26

with themselves In the examination of Ministers the testimony of the place from whence they come is to be demanded whereby it may bee understood what life and conversation hee hath been of and whether he hath been addicted to any Heresie or to the reading of any hereticall books or to curious and strange questions and idle speculations or rather whether hee be accompted sound and consenting in all things to the Doctrine received in the Church Whereunto if hee agree hee is also to expound some part of the holy Scriptures twice or oftner as it shall seem meet to the examiners and that before the Conference and that Church which is interessed Let him also be demanded of the principall heads of Divinity And whether he will diligently execute and discharge his Ministery and in the execution thereof propound unto himselfe not his owne desires and commodities but the glory of God and edification of the Church Lastly whether hee will be studious and carefull to maintaine and preserve wholesome Doctrine and Ecclesiasticall Discipline Thus let the Minister be examined not onely by one Eldership but also by some greater meeting and assembly Of Election BEfore the Election of a Minister and the deliberation of the Conference concerning the same let there be a day of Fast kept in the Church interessed Of the place of exercising this Calling ALbeit it be lawfull for a Minister upon just occasion to Preach in another Church then that wherof he is Minister yet none may exercise any ordinary Ministery elsewhere but for a certaine time upon great occasion and by the consent of his Church and Conference Of the Office of the Ministers of the word and first of the order of Liturgy or Common Prayer LEt the Minister that is to Preach name a Psalme or a part of a Psalm beginning with the first and so proceeding that may be sung by the Church noting to them the end of their singing to wit the glory of God and their own edification After the Psalme let a short admonition to the people follow of preparing themselves to pray duly unto God Then let there be made a Prayer containing a generall confession First of the guilt of sin both originall and actuall and of the punishment which is due by the Law for them both Then also of the promise of the Gospell and in respect of it supplication of pardon for the said guilt and punishment and petition of grace promised as for the duties of the whole life so especially for the godly expounding and receiving of the Word Let this petition be concluded with the Lords Prayer After the Sermon let Prayer be made againe First for grace to profit by the doctrine delivered the principall heads thereof being remembred then for all men but chiefly for the universall Church and for all estates and degrees of the people which is likewise to be ended with the Lords Prayer and the singing of a Psalme as before Last of all let the Congregation be dismissed with some convenient forme of blessing taken out of the Scripture such as is Num. 6. 24. 2 Cor. 13. 13. Of Preaching LEt him that shall Preach choose some part of the Canonicall Scripture to expound and not of the Apocrypha Further in his ordinary Ministery let him not take Postills as they are called but some whole booke of the holy Scripture especially of the new Testament to expound in order In choise whereof regard is to be had both of the Ministers ability and of the edification of the Church He that Preacheth must performe two things the first that his speech bee uncorrupt which is to be considered both in regard of the Doctrine that it be holy sound wholsome and profitable to edification not divelish hereticall leavened corrupt fabulous curious or contentious and also in respect of the manner of it that it be proper to the place which is handled that is which either is contained plainly in the very words or if it be gathered by consequent that the same be fit and cleere and such as may rise upon the property of the word grace of speech and suit of the matter and not be allegoricall strange wrested or far fetched Now let that which is such and chiefly which is fittest for the times and occasions of the Church be delivered Further let the explication confirmation enlargement and application and the whole Treatise and handling of it be in the vulgar tongue and let the whole confirmation and proofe be made by arguments testimonies and examples taken only out of the holy Scriptures applied fitly and according to the naturall meaning of the places that are alleadged The second thing to be performed by him that preacheth is a reverend gravity This is considered first in the stile phrase and manner of speech that it be spirituall pure proper simple and applied to the capacity of the people not such as humane wisdome teacheth nor savoring of new fanglednesse nor either so affectate as it may serve for pompe and ostentation or so carelesse and base as becommeth not Ministers of the Word of God Secondly it is also to be regarded aswell in ordering the voyce in which a care must be had that avoyding the keeping alwayes of one tune it may be equall and both rise and fall by degrees as also in ordering the gesture wherein the body being upright the guiding and ordering the whole body is to follow the voyce there being avoyded in it all unseemely gestures of the head or other parts and often turning of the body to divers sides Finally let the gesture be grave modest and seemly not utterly none nor too much neither like the gestures of Playes or Fencers These things are to be performed by him that Preacheth whereby when need requireth they may be examined who are trayned and exercised to be made fit to Preach Let there be if it may be every Sabbath day two Sermons and let them that preach alwayes endeavour to keepe themselves within one houre especially on the weekdayes The use of preaching at Burialls is to be left as it may bee done conveniently because there is danger that they may nourish the superstition of some or bee abused to pompe and vanity Of the Catechisme LEt the Catechisme bee taught in every Church Let there be two sorts One more large applied to the delivering of the sum of Religion by a sute and order of certaine places of the Scriptures according to which some point of the holy Doctrine may be expounded every week Another of the same sort but shorter fit for the exammation of the rude and ignorant before they be admitted to the Lords Supper Of the other parts of Liturgy or Divine Service ALL the rest of the Liturgy or Divine Service consisteth in the administration of the Sacraments and by the custome of the Church in the blessing of Marriage The most commodious forme thereof is that which is used by the Churches that have reformed their Discipline according