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A81501	The Discipline and order of particular churches, no novelty. Proved from Scripture, reason, autiquity, and the most eminent modern divines. Or, A discourse of the church, in a scripture notion, with her extent, power and practice, tending to moderate the minds of men, toward dissenters in matters ecclesiastical, and to acquit such from the charge of innovation, faction, separation, schism, and breach of union and peace in the church, who cannot conform in many things to the rules, canons, and practices of others. / By a Lover of truth, peace, unity, and order.	Lover of truth, peace, unity, and order.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1558A; ESTC R174652	61,995	98

was nothing else but their Election c. And that all the Rites and Ceremonies now used are but Novelties And Martin Bucer for these conclusions in his afore-said Book and in his Scripta Anglicana of the Office of Pastor p. 154. 159. 191. and on Mat. 16. That imposition of hands on those chosen Ministers belong to the Presbiters but that this they have not Originally but only Instrumentally as Servants to the whole Congregation And that this ought to be done publickly in the Church where they are Elected before all the Congregation and that the imposition of hands is no essential part of Ordination Luther held this Concil Trident l. 7. p. 590. but that it may be omitted And that those who are Elected and Lawfully called to the Ministry by the Suffrage of the whole Church and People are Ministers Lawfully called and Ordained without this Ceremony And Mr. Prin there further proves this by David Blond Apol. Sect. 3. de Ordinatione plebis in Electionibus jure from p. 309. to 448. He also affirms p. 81. That Morney Amesius Morney Lord of Plessis in his Book de Eccesia cap. 11. and sundry others there quoted say That the People alone in case of Necessity where are no Bishops or Ministers or where Bishops refuse to ordain as they ought may Elect and Ordain Ministers The right of Ordination and Election being Originally in the whole Church and people c. and that imposition of hands is no Essential but Ceremonial part of Ordination as Angelus de Clavaso Peter Martyr Mr. Baxters body of Divinity of Ordination p. 79. and others both Papists and Protestants affirm Mr. Stillingfleet in his Irenicum p. 392. where he transcribes Bishop Cranmers answer to the Questions before mentioned hath set down these words amongst others as the Bishops own words The Bishop having affirmed that the people before Christian Princes did commonly Elect their Bishops and Priests saith further That in the New-Testament he that is appointed to be Priest or Bishop needed no Consecration for Election or appointment thereto saith he is sufficient Now having so great a cloud of witnesses beyond all exception and a concurrent sentence in this matter by Persons at so great a distance each from other in their Judgment in other things and living in several ages of the World It seemeth strange that there should be such wrestling against the common right of the Church of God and such a stir to make that Scripture Acts 14.23 to speak something else than that which so many Learned eminent Godly Men agree it doth and the practice of the Church so long and universally and fully affirm it to do Much more strange it is that men should be blamed for being of this Judgment and practising accordingly having so much ground to believe it to be the truth If any should pretend that there are other Officers in the Church of God besides Ordinary Bishops and Deacons Ho●ker in his Eccles Polity 4th Book p. 417 418 c. allows Presbyter and Deacons to be the Clergy and that no where in the New Test are they called Priests nor will he contend for that Name See more p. 123 of the same Book by Divine Right to continue Let such prove it if they can But it seems clear that after Prophets Apostles and Evangelists these extraordinary Officers of Christ were deceased who while they continued had extraordinary Furniture given them from Christ for their work These of Bishops or Elders and Deacons in the particular Churches were all one no superior and General Officers over many as Mr. Stillingfleet in his afore-said Irenicum p. 416. saith that the Episcopal Men will hardly find any evidence in Scripture or the Apostles practice for Churches consisting of many fixed Congregations for the Worship of God under the charge of one person First it is manifest that Bishops and Elders in those days were the same Officers and not one above the other Acts 20. where the Apostles ●nt for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus and ●●ving Discoursed with them he gave them ●harge that they the same Persons should take ●ed to the Flock over which the Holy Ghost had ●ade them Bishops or Overseers as our Tran●tion hath it So when Peter writes 1 Epist 5 ● 2 c. He there calls the Ruling Officers in ●eneral Elders whether Ruling only or Ruling ●●d Teaching Elders See 1 Tim. 5.17 Bishop Cranmer in the place before quoted by ●r Stillingfleet in his Irenicum p. 392. saith ●hat the Bishop and Priest were at one time and ●ot two things but both one Office in the begin●ng of Christs Religion Dr. Fulk against the Rhem. upon Titus 1.5 ●nd Jerome in his Comment upon Titus affirms ●is And the Magdeburg Divines quote Jerome Am●rose and Chrysostome for the proof of this and ●lso for shewing how in after Ages one Elder was ●xalted above the rest Doctor Whittaker in his Answer to Campian in his ten Reasons 10. Vol. and then called the Bishop ●y way of Eminence and that this was by Humane ●uthority Cent. 2. Cap. 7. col 126. Cent. 4. ●ap 6. col 491. Cent. 5. cap. 7. col 737. Nay ●regory Nazianzen wisheth this Episcopal decree ●bolished and saith it is Tyrannical Orat. 28. So ●ad it proved in his days as it seems Bishop Jewel in his Reply to Mr. Harding p. ●22 229. 250 251 252. alledgeth this out of Je●ome Cyprian c. That Bishops are greater than ●riests more of Custom than of Gods Ordinance That the Power of all Priests by the Authority of Gods Word is one and equal and that it was ●nly Policy that set one over many And in p. 257. ●oncludes against Papists in these words If Christ saith the Bishop appointed not one Priest ov● another how then is it likely he should appoint o● over all And so Mr. Stillingfleet in his afo●said Book See Smect p. 24. 26. Raynolds conference with Hart cap. 8. p. 461 462. affirms this Policy to be the ground of raising one E●de● ab●ve others and so step by step to the Pope See also p 540 541 p. 276 277. 310 311. proves this 〈◊〉 large That Bishops and Presbiters were the sa●● in Primitive times and that Arius was not c●demned for that Opinion but for his separat●● from such who set up Bishops above other Pries● and he quotes Aug. Epist 29. for this That 〈◊〉 difference between Episcopacy and Presbitery t● the one is greater than the other arise only by 〈◊〉 Custom of the Church attributing a Name of gre●er Honour to them Secondly That Bishops Elders and Deac● were all the Officers Christ intended to have c●tinued in the Church after the Apostles days see● clear in this That when the Apostle wrote to 〈◊〉 Church of the Philippians he mentioned these ●ly To the Bishops and Deacons Phil. 1.1 A●● when the Holy Ghost mentions the Qualificati● of Church-Officers he names none but these N● doth he

Word sometimes the People did choose such as they thought meet thereunto and when any were sent by the Apostles or other the People of their own voluntary will with thanks did accept of them not for the Supremacy Imperial Dominion that the Apostles had over them to command as their Princes or Masters but as good People ready to Obey the good Councellors and to accept any thing necessary for their Edification and Benefit And again that the People before Christian Princes were commonly did Elect their Bishops and Priests thus far of Bishop Cranmer which words of his as Mr. Stillingfleet there affirms he put his own Hand to and gave it in in answer to certain Questions put to him in King Edward the Sixths Time and now remain upon Record Bishop Nicholson of Gloucester in his Vindication of the Church of England p. 27. grants the Truth of this That the People did choose their Pastors in the Primitive Ages of the Church in express terms and saith it was taken away from the People by Christian Princes when the Fathers disliked the use So far of him in this place Polanus in his Sintagma Lib. 7. Cap. 15. fully proves and affirms this Right to be Lodged in these Churches Under this Head De Electionibus seu vocationibu● Ecclesiasticis First he saith That the Liberty or Power of Election calling or sending of Ecclesiastical Persons is a Right which the whole Church hath in choosing and calling to themselves approved and fit Ministers and in placing them into Sacred Order p. 542. After in his next p. 543. under this Question a quibus Electio seu vocatio Ministrorum Ecclesiae fieri debeat By whom the Election or calling of Ministers of the Church ought to be made He saith That unto the Legitimate or Lawful Election of the Ministers of the Church especially of the Pastors is requisite a free and ingenious consent and Suffrage of the whole Church whose business it is that is of the Elders and Flock The which consent must not be had by intreaty or sold for a price much less forced and extorted so that it is the part of the whole Church to choose Ministers for themselves And there he gives these following arguments to evince it First because even in the time of the Apostles the whole Church whose business it was did choose Ministers for themselves or to it self Neither did the Apostles themselves saith he Ordain any one for Ecclesiastical charges only by their own Authority but always by the Church consenting and approving Acts 6.2 c. and 14.23 Secondly because by this means the Churches own Liberty which Christ hath given to it is kept For a Pastor or Minister of the Word of God is not to be obtruded upon the Church of God against his will Can. Null invit distinc 61. Thirdly because it serves to this That even the Ministers may with a good Conscience Rule the Lords Flock by whom he is Elected and the Flock of the Lord may in like manner yield themselves the more easie to him to be Instructed and fed than to him who beside or against their will is thrust upon them and again he is not to be acknowledged for a Lawful Pastor of the Church who hath been intruded on the Church by the Authority and Command of the Prince Quod testatur Concil Parisiense primum Can. Octavo Tomo Secundo Concil And after he saith in the same p. That fit Persons are to be nominated and presented to the People before the Election and should be openly proposed in the Assemblies And again in p. 544. Under this Question Qualiter seu quomodo Ministri Ecclesiae Eligi vocari debeant How the Ministers of the Church ought to be chosen and called Acts 14.23 Those Persons are to be Nominated of whom the Election and Calling ought to be made to this end that the Church by the free Suffrage of the whole Congregation or such to whom she hath committed a Right and Power of choosing may approve and accept of one of them That the Suffrages are collected by some Pastor of the Church or of another to whom he shall commit it And they are given either in Order by every Elector Vivâ voce or joyntly of all or many by lifting up of hands or either way c. For if by giving their Suffrages Vivâ voce there were variance and they go into many Sentences of unprofitable and tedious prolixity Those who had any Votes for Ordination were again named and every one being named they who chose him were commanded to lift up their Hands At the Nomination of whom either all or many lifted up their Hands this Man was concluded to be Lawfully Elected After this manner saith he Paul and Barnabas did Create Elders Acts 14.23 And after under this Question By what Rite or Ceremony c. he saith He who was Elected by the Church with free Suffrages at length received Ordination of the Pastors of the Church 1 Tim. 4.14 5.22 the whole Multitude of the Church being present Then Polanus concludes with these words They do therefore grievously sin who do manifestly drive away the Ecclesiastical People or Flock from the Election of their Ministers which saith he the false or Counterfeit Popish Bishops do yea they do grievously sin who do impose Bishops and Pastors upon the Church against their will Thus far Polanus agrees in his own words From some of the former Authorities The African Synod Athanasius Cornelius and others The Presbyterian Divines in their Book called Smectimnius admits this power to reside in the People of particular Churches and that by Divine Authority They say First That the especial power of Judging of the Worthiness or Unworthiness lay in the People Secondly That the power of choosing or refusing them upon this Judgment resided in the People Thirdly That the power descended upon them by Divine Authority Athanasius say they in his Epist ad Orthodoxos blamed the Intrusion of Bishops as against the Apostolical Precepts against the Canon and compelled the Heathen to Blaspheme Mr. Prin in his Book of un-bishoping Timothy and Titus p. 69. affirms this out of Alcuvinus de Diviniis Officiis Cap. 37. That Ministers of all sorts were made to the Year 800 by this Election of Clergy and People and that they were all present at their Ordination and consented to it Also he affirms in p. 72 73. That Martin Bucer in his Book of recalling and bringing in again the use of Lawful Ordination saith That this power is in the People Much more might be produced to prove this particular See only Magdeb. Cent. 4. cap. 6. col 43. Concil Trident. in English Lib. 8. p. 725. Lib. 7. p. 591. 598. Lib. 6. p. 404 405. And as to imposition of Hands upon these thus chosen Mr. Prin in the same Book p. 72 73. quotes Jerome Epist to Evagr. and his Comment upon Titus for this That the Ancient Consecration of Bishops