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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	epistle_n	paul_n	timothy_n	2,910	5	10.4803	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62285	A serious inquiry into the means of an happy union, or, What reformation is necessary to prevent popery and to avert God's judgments from the nation written upon the occasion of the fast, and humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament by William Saywell.	Saywell, William, 1643-1701.	1681 (1681)	Wing S805; ESTC R25119	28,144	52

let them be confirmed in the Congregation to this work by the laying on of hands And they refer to Heb. 5. to S. Paul's Epistles to Timothy and Titus and then say Wherefore no man is permitted to exercise the Office of a Priest amongst us but he that is called and instituted according to these precepts as it is meet The Canons of the Dutch Church speak more fully in this matter Can. 5. It pleaseth that exact account should be taken in Provincial Synods and that such order should be appointed for the good of the Church as necessity doth require Can. 6. It shall be lawful for none to exercise the Ministry in private places or Hospitals or any other place whatsoever unless he be admitted according to the foregoing Canons and he shall be subject to the Laws of the Church as well as any others The French Canons say the same of Ministers La disciplin des Eglise c. par Huisseau Can. 24. Ministers shall not wander up and down neither shall they have liberty to thrust themselves in by their own authority where they please Can. 26. A Minister that shall thrust himself into a place although he be approved by the people cannot be approved by the neighbour Ministers or others but shall be brought to the cognisance of the Colloquy or Synod of the Province Can. 57. Those that shall thrust themselves into the Ministry in Provinces and places where the pure Ministry is already established shall be sufficiently admonished to desist and in case they shall persevere they shall be declared Schismaticks as also they that follow them if they do not forsake them after they have been admonished of the same The Assembly of Divines in their Confession of Faith Chap. 30. The Lord Jesus as King and Head of his Church hath appointed a Government in the hand of Church-officers distinct from the Civil Magistrate Chap. 31. For the better Government and further Edification of the Church there ought to be such Assemblies as are commonly called Synods or Councils It belongeth to Synods and Councils ministerially to determine Controversies of Faith and Cases of Conscience to set down Rules and Directions for better ordering of the publick Worship of God and Government of his Church to receive Complaints in cases of male Administration and authoritatively to determine the same that is by silencing those that will not conform to them Let us see what Order the Universal Church made in these matters Codex Can. Eccl. universal Can. 4. which is the renowned Decree of the first General Council held at Nice A Bishop ought to be appointed by all the Bishops that are in the Province but if this be difficult by reason of some urgent necessity or because of the length of the way the Ordination ought to be made by three at least gathered together and the rest that are absent approving what is done and giving their consent by their Letters And the Confirmation of all that is done in every Province must be by the Metropolitan Can. 5. of the same Council If any man be excommunicated whether he be a Clergyman or a Layman let this Sentence be observed by the Bishops in every Province according to the Canon which does require that those that are rejected by one should not be received by another And so they that have manifestly offended the Bishop shall be held justly excommunicated till it shall seem good to the Company of Bishops to decree a gentler Sentence Can. 83. If any Bishop that is deposed by a Synod or any Presbyter or Deacon that is deposed by his Bishop shall offer to exercise any thing of his Ministry whether he be a Bishop according to the custom going before or a Priest or a Deacon he shall not have any hopes of being restored in a Synod nor be permitted to make any Apologie for himself And let all that joyn in Communion with him also be cast out especially if they shall joyn with him after they know this Sentence is pronounced against him Can. 84. If any Presbyter or Deacon shall despise his own Bishop and separate himself from the Church and hold a Congregation and set up an Altar and will not hearken to his Bishop when he calls him nor obey nor submit to him when he calls him once and twice let him be wholly deposed and that without remedy and with utter incapacity of receiving his Honour again but if he persist to make disturbance and raise Schisms in the Church let him be restrained as a seditious person by the Secular Powers Can. 91. If any Presbyter or Deacon deposed by his own Bishop or any Bishop deposed by a Synod shall offer to trouble the Emperours ears since he ought to apply himself to a greater Synod and refer the right which he thinks he has to more Bishops and wait for their examination and judgment But if he shall despise them and trouble the King he shall not be thought worthy of any pardon nor have any place of defence or hopes of restitution Can. 165. made at the second General Council held at Constantinople It is manifest that it appertains to the Synod of every Province to order all matters within their Province according as it is defined in the Council of Nice So that as the Law of Nature does require that there should be an orderly way in all Societies to determine all matters relating to the Government thereof so Christ has appointed in his Church that all the People should obey their several Pastors and because they are men like others and die he has appointed a way how their Offices should be supplied to the end of the World and for the more peaceable ordering of that matter has said Matth. 18. If any one refuse to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican And by his Apostle 1 Cor. 14.32 The spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets And according to these Rules not onely the ancient and universal Church in all Ages but even the Reformed Protestant Churches to prevent Schisms and Confusions have constantly decreed that no man ought to exercise any Ecclesiastical Office in the Church but with the allowance of each Provincial Synod or according to such Laws and Canons as they did prescribe Independents Anabaptists Quakers guilty of Schism And therefore all the Independents Anabaptists Quakers that have no other outward Mission but the Choice of the People and yet pretend to be Teachers and Governours of the Church do like Corah Dathan and Abiram that presumed to burn Incense without Gods warrant and that Nation may expect Gods Judgments that does permit such Profanation of his Holy Name and Worship and not take effectual care to hinder such a notorious violation of the Priestly Office But yet amongst those that maintain the necessity of an outward and orderly Mission there are still great Disputes about the lawful Authority of those Ecclesiastical