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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52993	Palæmon, or, The grand reconciler composing the great difference and disputes about church-government and discovering the primitive government of churches, built upon the Word of God, and the practice of the apostles / compiled by one who labours for the peace of the church.	T. N.	1646 (1646)	Wing N77; ESTC R30734	20,310	32

Eucharist celebrated by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bishop so that the Presbyters did not preach but when the Bishop was absent and administred not the Sacraments i. e. did not consecrate in his presence This is evident in the life of St. Austin by the story of Valerius a Greek Bishop who comming into St. Austines Church at Hippo desired Saint Austine who was not then a Bishop to officiate in regard that he was not well skilled in the African nor the people in the knowledge of the Greek tongue Tertullian affirmes the same l. de Bapt. c. 17. so does Ignatius in Epist ad Smyrn Where to shew the preeminence of the Bishop he proves that as by the ancient constitutions of the Church the Presbyters ought not to doe any thing without the consent of the Bishop nor the Bishop in great matters without the consent and advice of his Presbyters so neither ought the Laity to doe any thing in the Church without the Bishop and Presbyters approbation or liking This may be farther proved out of Ignatius in his Epist ad Trall And so still in Ignatius the Presbyters are assistant to the Bishop in all things Which is likewise confirmed by the sixth Canon of the Councell of Gangra Vi. Mr. Th. p. 118 119. Where hee also proves that the Deacons were not suijuris i. e. had not the sole disposing of the maintenance of the Church and poore but did onely execute the will and judgement of the Bishop and Presbyters and distributed the Churches almes to those whom they appointed SECT VIII HAving thus declared in part the preeminence of the Bishop over the Presbyters i. e. the priviledge he has in some cases above these and also that the Deacons as well as the Lay-persons are subject to the power of both the former Mr. Th. proceeds to discourse of two particulars in the Office common to Bishops and Presbyters wherein the people have a share and may claim an interesse The one is the discipline of Penance The other the ordaining of Ministers And first of all by way of manuduction to his discourse he explaines that Text Matth. 16.19 And I will give thee the keyes of heaven And whatsoever thou bindest on earth shall be bound in heaven whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Which power of binding and loosing he affirmes to be the same with that given to the Apostles John 20.24 Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto him and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained The Bishop and Presbyters that exercised this power of binding and loosing remitting and retaining sins represented the office of Judges and Physitians Lapsis fratribus per poenitentiam medela quaeratur Firmil in Ep. ad Cypr. Ep. 75. Judges they were in shutting Gods house upon offenders and binding their sinnes upon their consciences Physitians in prescribing the medicine of repentance And in that respect alone are said to remit sinnes as a Physitian who does no more but prescribe the medicine or at the most see it prescribed is said to cure a mans disease And having a spirituall eye to judge when repentance is sound and unfained upon due knowledge of this they may assure men that their sinnes are pardoned and pronounce their absolution declaratively whereby they unloose that knot wherewith their consciences were tyed The medicine of Repentance prescribed to a delinquent was wont to be strengthened with the prayers and intercession of the Congregation but in the chiefe place of the Bishop and Presbyters whose prayers were correspondent to that which is given to make physick work Vi. Mat. 18.19 out of which text following that wherein Christ gives to the Apostles power of binding and loosing may be proved that the Congregation interceding by their prayers with God for a sinner in this respect bore a part and had a share with the Church the Bishop and Presbyters in the discipline of penance which these imposed upon delinquents but * i. e. The congregation or people they medled not with the keyes of Gods house i. e. they did not as the Jewes were wont to doe usurpe the power of Excommunication upon causes of their particular interesse but left that wholly to the Church i. e. to the Eccelesiasticall Governours to whom only that power did belong Dic Ecclesiae Matth. 18.17 implyes as much That censure of Excommunication as appeares by 1 Cor. 5.13 did cut men off from the conversation of Christians for that such persons forfeited by their hainous sinnes the priviledge of Gods sonnes and so delivered them over to the power of Satan to be led captive by him at his will and pleasure As those among the Israelites that lodged without the Camp were in danger to be lickt up and devoured by the Amalekites That course of Excommunication as it was a preservative in regard of those that were not tainted yet might be so was it medicinall in respect of the sicke which were usually restored to their former soundnesse by shame and griefe Vi. 1 Cor. 5.6 1 Tim. 1.20 and this power of excommunicating was exercised in common by the Bishops and Presbyters which practice was a good glosse upon the words of our Saviour to Peter Behold I give thee the keyes of heaven for what was promised to Peter was given to his fellow Apostles but was to rest in the Church throughout all ages Witnesse that of Saint Austine Ep. 79. Si hoc in Ecclesiâ fit Petrus quando claves accepit Ecclesiam sanctam significavit Vid. Mr. Th. p. 143. where you shall finde for the confirmation of this an authority out of Tertull. Apol. c. 39. and another out of St. Aust Homil. ult ex 50. Hom. c. 11. How because the Church cannot proceed in their Censures effectually or to any good purpose but by vertue of those lawes which are put in force and maintained by the Secular powers and because it cannot be expected that the people should yeeld a voluntary submission to the Discipline of the Church farther then it is enabled by the Lawes of the Realme to exercise it Therefore it is much to be wished that those wholesome and usefull Lawes by which the Ministers of the Church are enabled directed and constrained to exercise and discharge this necessary part of their office may be revived and put into act that so the power of the Keyes given to the Church by our Lord being assisted and strengthned by the Secular arme may be enabled to reduce all notorious offenders to a good life and conversation by the Discipline of penance and to cut them off from the Church that refuse it Then this Discipline of penance there is not a more puissant way to beat down Vice and to discountenance Malefactors in a Christian Commonwealth In regard that when they have satisfied the Lawes of the Kingdome with the losse of goods and reputation or have escaped death by the connivence and gentlenesse of their Judges Neverthelesse if the