Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	ceremony_n	prayer_n	rite_n	1,620	5	9.4572	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78468	Certaine considerations wherein the prelates doe acknowledge that they stand by the meer mercy of the King and Parliament; not having any foundation in Scripture. And that the King and Parliament may dispose of them, at their pleasure.		1642 (1642)	Wing C1698; Thomason E131_17; ESTC R11567	6,280	8

power order or jurisdiction betweene the Apostles themselves or between the Bishops themselves but that they were all equall in power order authoritie and jurisdiction and that there is now and sith the time of the Apostles any such diversity or difference among the Bishops it was devised by the ancient Fathers c. For the said Fathers considering the great and infinite multitude of Christian men and taking examples of the old Testament thought it expedient to make an order of degrees to be amongst Bishops and spirituall Governours of the Church and so ordained some to bee Patriarkes some to bee Primates some to bee Metropolitanes some to bee Archbishops some to be Bishops c. Which differences the said holy Fathers thought necessary to enact and establish by their Decrees and Constitutions nor for that any such differences were prescribed and established in the Gospell or mentioned in any Canonicall writings of the Apostles or testified by any Ecclesiasticall Writer within the Apostles time And thus farre their verdict But let us grant that orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons bee contained in the holy Scriptures yet if those orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons which are established in the booke bee not the same orders of Bishops Priests Deacons which are authorised by the Scriptures then through the aequivocation of these words Orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons there being a falacie how should this forme and manner of subscription be lawfull viz. that the book containeth nothing contrary to the word of God and that it lawfully may be used For onely such orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons ought to be acknowledged subscribed unto and used as by the holy Scriptures are warranted And therefore such as are contained in the booke if so be they be divers from those which are approved in the holy scriptures how should they without sinne be subscribed unto and used Vnlesse wee shall affirme that Ministers of the Gospell of God may rightfully approve of such orders of Ministers as the Lord and Lawgiver of the Gospell never allowed ne approved And thus much have we spoken touching not subscription touching the not exact use of the order and forme of the booke of Common prayer and touching the not precise practise and wearing of the rites ceremonies and ornaments of the Church Wherein if we have spoken otherwise then as for our speaking we have warrant from the Kings laws our earnest desire is that it may be shewed unto us wherein we have erred For if there bee any thing whereof we be ignorant we shall be willing to be taught the same and having learned it to yeeld to the practise thereof In the mean time seeing not to weare a Surplice in the ministration of divine service not to make a crosse in Baptisme not to subscribe c. in it selfe it not a sinne against any commandement of God nor a thing scandalous unto the people and seeing also that Parsons who refuse to weare and use the same be in every respect men of good note condition fame quality and behaviour yea and such as against whom no misdemeanor for doctrine or life which might aggravate their offence can justly be objected we may lawfully as we thinke conclude in their behalfe that de aequitate misericordia juris they ought to be respected and tolerated rather then for their refusall meerly standing upon their consciences whether erroneous or not erroneous it skilleth not de rigore juris if there be any such rigour to be suspended excommunicated or deprived yea and in so generall and doubtfull a case of conscience upon so slender a ground of perjury and contempt upon persons every way so peaceable and well qualified and wherein no scandall hath ensued we suppose it cannot be shewed among all the decrees and sentences recorded among all the Popish Canonists that ever any Popish ordinaries in any age have used the like judiciall rigour against any their Popish Priests It is to be noted that the forraigne Canon law is none otherwise in any part of this treatise intended to be the Kings Ecclesiasticall law then onely upon a false supposition of the Archbishops and Bishops Because the same law is yet used and practised in their Consistory notwithstanding it hath been long since abolished by Act of Parliament