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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50212	The judgment of several eminent divines of the congregational vvay concerning a pastors power occasionally to exert ministerial acts in another church besides that which is his own particular flock.	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1223; ESTC R41439	6,067	16

acknowledge that though a Minister has not such power in another Church as he has over them that are his proper Flock nevertheless that he may charitatively put forth an Act of his Office to those in another Church of whom he is no Officer Pag. 132. 133. and again 134. in Answer to that Question Whether a Minister may Administer the Seals in another Congregation Their words are We will not deny but that occasionally being called thereunto by the desire of the Church he may Lawfully do the same This was the Judgment of Mr. Shepard of Cambridge and Mr. Allyn of Dedham both of them famous in New-England Dr. Tho. Goodwin has truly stated and asserted the Congregational way as it differs from Presbyterianism and Brownism Now that that great Divine was for the Affirmative in the Question under Controversy is well known and in a Letter of his to a Minister at Boston in New-England Dated March 25th 1679. which was not long before he was Translated to Glory His words are these A Church beginning to become a Church may have Liberty while without Elders to receive in or cast out as occasion is yet I do advise that they should hasten to Choose Elders to those Ends or if they do not that they may take the Elders of another Church whom they confide in and Electively Choose for that purpose they may make use of them he or they having Power conferred on them for that Act by the Brethren This being my private Opinion that an Elder one set apart for that Office in any Church is truly a Minister occasionally to Exercise Ministerial Acts as he is called thereunto and this though it seems to warrant a constant Presbytery over other Churches yet is clear a different thing for such a Presbytery is of a settled ordinary course and will challenge the Power not so here in this Case it being Elective and the power of chusing whom and where arbitrarily remaining in the Church as they shall judge Ita sentio ita sensi and so I have practised in ordaining those worthy Ministers Mr. George Griffith and Mr. Lee to their Churches being by them called thereunto and thus our Elders do practise to this day Every true Minister actually such to his own Church is medium applicabile a Means and Instrument that may apply to any Ministerial Act out of his own Church in any other Church if he be called thereunto by them Thus Dr. Goodwin a man never to be mentioned without Respect and Honour By these things we see what has been the Judgment of the most Eminent Ministers of Christ amongst those that are called Congregational men What the Sentiments of those named Presbyterians have been is needless to mention Blessed be the Lord Jesus Christ in that there is cause to hope that those Names of distinction are now at an end since at London and through out England they are become United Brethren To conclude I doubt not but that when a Sister Church has no Teaching Officer and consequently no instituted Ordinances in a stated way administred amongst them for them to request their Neighbours to dispense the Seals to them provided this shall not retard their Settlement under a Pastor of their own will be more pleasing to God than for them to live from year to year like Pagans without any Sacraments and perhaps multitudes of their Children not to be Marked for the Lambs of Christ that Churches Pastors and Bretheren in a Vicinity may and should in this way manifest their Brotherly kindness and communion Canticles 8.8 FINIS