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A64679 The reduction of episcopacie unto the form of synodical government received in the ancient church proposed in the year 1641 as an expedient for the prevention of those troubles which afterwards did arise about the matter of church-government / by James Usher ; published by Nicholas Bernard. Ussher, James, 1581-1656. 1658 (1658) Wing U218; ESTC R29579 7,636 33

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done the Suffragan supplying the place of those who in the ancient Church were called Chorepiscopi might every moneth assemble a Synod of all the Rectors or Incumbent Pastors within the Precinct and according to the major part of their voyces coclude all matters that shall be brought into debate before them To this Synod the Rector and Church-wardens might present such impenitent persons as by admonitions and suspension from the Sacrament would not be reformed who if they should still remain contumacious and incorrigible the sentence of Excommunication might be decreed against them by the Synod and accordingly be executed in the Parish where they lived Hitherto also all things that concerned the Parochial Ministers might be referred whether they did touch their Doctrine or their conversation ' as also the censure of all new Opiuions Heresies and Schismes which did arise within that Circuit with liberty of Appeal if need so require unto the Diocesan Synod III. The Diocesan Synod might be held once or twice in the year as it should be thought most convenient Therein all the Suffragans and the rest of the Rectors or Incumbent Pasters or a certain select number of of every Deanry within the Dio●ese might meet with whose consent or the major part of them all things might be concluded by the Bishop or * Saperintendent call him whether you will or in his absence by one of the Suffragans whom he shall depute in his stead to be Moderator of that Assembly Here all matters of greater moment might be taken into consideration and the Orders of the monthly Synodes revised and if need be reformed and if here also any ma●ter of difficulty could not receive a full determination it might be referred to the next Provincial or National Synod IV. The Provincial Synod might consist of all the Bishops and Suffragans and such other of the Clergy as should be elected out of every Diocese within the Province the Arch-Bishop of either Province might be the Moderator of this meeting or in his room some one of the Bishops appointed by him and all mat●ers be ordered therein by common consent as in the former Assemblies This Synod might be held every third year and if the Parliament do then sit according to the Act of a Triennial Parliament both the Arch-Bishops and Provincial Synods of the Land might joyn together and make up a National Councel wherein all Appeals from infer 〈…〉 ur Synods might be received all their Acts examined and all Ecclesiastical Constitutions which concerne the state of the Church of the whole Nation established WE are of the judgement That the form of Government here proposed is not in any point repugnant to the Scripture and that the Suffragans mentioned in the second Proposition may lawfully use the power both of Jurisdiction and Ordination according to the Word of God and the practice of the ancient Church Ja. Armachanus Rich. Holdsworth AFter the proposal of this An. 1641. Many Quaeries were made and doubts in point of conscience resolved by the Primate divers passages of which he heth left under his own hand shewing his pious endeavours to peace and unity which how far it then prevailed is out of season now to relate only I wish it might yet be thought of to the repairing of the breach which this division hath made and that those who are by their Office Messengers of Peace and whose first word to cach house should be peace would earnestly promote it within the walls of their Mother-Church wherein they were educated and not thus by contending about circumstantials lose the substance and make our selves a prey to the adversary of both who rejoyce in their hearts saying So would we have it Which are the Primates works and which not A Catalogue of the Works already printed of Doctor James Usher late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland which are owned by him In Latine DE Ecclesiarum Christianarum successione Statu. Quarto Londini 1613. Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge 4o Dublinii 1630. Historia Goteschalci 4o Dublinii 1631. De Primordiis Ecclesiarum Britanicarum 4o Dublinii 1639. Ignatii Epistolae cum annotationibus 4o Oxoniae 1645. De Anno Solari Macedonum 8o Londini 1648. Annales Veteris Testamenti Fol. Londini 1650. Annales Novi Testamenti usque ad extremum Templi Reipublicae Judaicae excidium c. Fol. Londini 2654. Epistola ad Capellum de Variantibus textus Hebraici Lectionibus 4o Londinii 1652. De Graeca Septuaginta Interpretum versione Syntagma 4o Londini 1655. These four last are sold by John Crook at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard In English AN Answer to a challènge made by the Jesuite Malone in Ireland Anno 1631. A Sermon preached before the House of Commons Febr. 18. 1618. A Declaration of the visibility of the Church preached in a Sermon before King James June 20. 1624. A Speech delivered in the Castle-Chamber in Dublin the 22. of November 1622. The Religion profest by the ancient Irish and Brittains 4o 1631. These five are bound together in Quarto Immanuel or the Incarnation of the Son of God 4o Dublin 1639. A Geographical Description of the Lesser Asia 4o Oxford 1644. The judgement of Doctor Reynolds touching the Original of Episcopacy more largely confirmed out of Antiquity An. 1641. His Discourse of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitanes in 4o Oxford 1644. His small Catechisme re-viewed 12o London 1654. ☞ His aforesaid Annals of the Old and New Testament with the Synchronismus of Heathen Story to the destruction of Jerusalem translated out of Latin into English now at the Presse Fol. to be sold by John Crook at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard In regard there have been and are divers books printed which go under the name of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh but are not his and more may be obtruded to the injury of him I have thought fit at the request of the Printer to give the Reader this advertisement following IN Anno● 1640. There was a book printed entitled the Bishop of Armaghs direction to the house of Parliament concerning the Liturgy and Episcopal Government and Anno 1641. Another book entitled Vox Hiberniae being some pretended notes of his at a publick fas● Both these at his Petition were suppressed by order from the House of Lords and Commons 11. Feb. 1641. and I hope will not be revived In Anno 1651. A book called A Method for Meditation or a manual of Divine duties which most injuriously is printed in his name but is none of his which he directed me then to declare publickly as from him yet in 1657. It is again reprinted to his great dishonour For his small Catechisme the Reader is to take notice that there was a false one Printed without his knowledge and is still sold for his The injury he received by it compelled him to review it with an Epistle of his own before it which is the mark to know