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england_n	call_v	church_n	part_n	2,516	5	4.5208	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47466	King William's toleration being an explanation of that liberty of religion, which may be expected from His Majesty's declaration, with a bill for comprehension & indulgence, drawn up in order to an act of Parliament.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Nottingham, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1621-1682.	1689 (1689)	Wing K580; ESTC R22778	16,192	20

the Bishop who brings in a Thing into the English Church which I confess I never read of in Antiquity and which I believe is not to be found in Christendom For a Minister of England is not Re-ordained by the French or by the Dutch to make him a Minister of the French or Dutch Church though it might be otherwise here because the Reason for it before mentioned is not there as here But as to the part of the Submitter the evil of Re-ordination lying only in the Vacating our first Ministry which is Sacriledge and here being no such matter so long as our former Ministry is publickly professed by the man himself and Bishop and whole Church there can be no Evil I say in a second Imposition of Hands as thus used only unless you will say it is a breach of the Third Commandment a taking an Ordinance of God in Vain when there is here no Ordinance of God at all but an Humane Institution for so good an end as Peace in the Church which being made the Qualification of a person for the use of his Ministry in publick and the enjoyment of a Living Who is the man that will say it is done in vain Nevertheless if this Device should happily pass Both Houses which being a New Thing and presented bare faced will rather be called a Monster and turn'd out of Doors two things must be advised One is That in the administring such an Institution Instead of these words the Bishop is appointed to use Take thou Authority to Exercise thy Ministry in the Church of England whereat the Nonconformist Minister having his Ministerial Authority already will Scruple it is better these be used Receive thou Admittance by the Imposition of my Hands to the Exercise of thy Ministry in the Church of England and in any Church in my Diocess where thou shall be called The Other is That the administrating such an humane Ordinance as this in order to Union may not be called Re-ordination which is a Name so odious in the Church in all Ages but as it is a New Thing and ought to have a New Office appointed for it so it should have a New Name also Let a Constitution or Canon be made for it and an Office or Form to administer it and let it be called Cannonical Admission And now I have said thus much This is not the thing wherein I am concern'd in my Bill To be ordained to the Office of a Minister does make a Man in common account a Minister of the Universal Church and a Minister of the Church Universal must be a Minister in her Church of England and of France and of Holland and of every Country and the Imposition of Hands to make a Man a Minister in the Church of England who was a Minister in every one before is a New Thing I have said and perhaps will be thought an Odd Thing too But to make a Man who is a Minister already of the Universal Church ●o be the Minister of such a particular place that was not their particular Minister before is no New Thing nor Odd Thing And if every Person not Episcopally ordained already shall be bound to go to his Bishop when he has such a Call for his Blessing with Imposition of Hands in reference to such a Place that is to pray for God's Blessing or Assistance of him to fulfill that Work there can be nothing of Scruple or doubt about the Lawfulness of his so doing Only I will suppose an Office here to be made as I have said before and in a Prayer fitted to the Case the Person being on his knees and the Bishop reading over him I would instead of those words before prescribed have these only brought in Whom by this Imposition of my Hands we recommend to the Grace of God for the Work unto which he is called One thing yet I must take notice of That in the Bill for Comprehension in Charles's time it came to be allowed at the Committee that the Ordination of those that were ordained only by Presbyters from 1644. to 1660. should be held good though Others were left to be Re-ordained and I cannot but be Sorry that a thing so small so equitable as that when there was no Bishops to go to for Orders should be with drawn Seeing the Testimony of an English Parliament to the Validity of Presbyterian Orders in honour to the Reformed Churches abroad were some considerable Attainment FINIS