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lord_n	damnation_n	drink_v	eat_v	10,899	5	8.2264	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85746	Of the authority of the highest powers about sacred things. Or, The right of the state in the Church. Wherein are contained many judicious discourses, pertinent to our times, and of speciall use for the order and peace of all Christian churches. / Put into English by C.B. M.A. The method of every chapter is added in the margent, and collected at the end.; De imperio summarum potestarum circa sacra. English.	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687, translator.	1651 (1651)	Wing G2117; Thomason E1244_1; ESTC R202244	156,216	365

Preaching of the Gospell Legislation It hath been shewed afore that Christ as alone he gives Law to souls so alone he passeth sentence on them not only in the end of the world by the last judgement but in the meane time also by retaining or remitting sins He alone saith Ambrose remits durosins who alone hath dyed for our sins And Jerome saith As the Priest makes the leprous clean or unclean so the Bishop or Presbyter binds or looses The same Father shews where he that useth the Key erres either in fact or Law there the Key is of none effect 'T is otherwise in Jurisdiction for there what the Judge erring hath pronounced stands by reason of his Authority that gives sentence and passes into a judged case As then the Cryer doth not give the sentence that he declares either rightly or amisse so the Pastor in that use of the Keys cannot properly be said to exercise Jurisdiction To the use of the Keys coheres the prescription of works of penance which if it be generall as that of the Baptist to the Jews Bring forth fruits meet for repentance and that of Daniel to the King Break off thy sins by mercy or if speciall as the enjoyning restitution and open detestation of an open offence it pertains to the annuntiation of the Law not to Jurisdiction But if that be specally prescrib'd which the Divine Law hath not specially defin'd this belongs not to Jurisdiction but ought to be refer'd to Counsell by which name it is very often called by the antient writers Wherefore as Philosophers Physicians Lawyers and friends also giving Counsell doe not properly pronounce sentence although oft times the Counsell is such as cannot without great fault be rejected so neither doth the Pastor pronounce senrence or use Jurisdiction when he affords advice wholesome for the soule Moreover it is annexed to the use of the Keys which also hath some appearance of Jurisdiction not to exhibite unto certaine persons the seals of Divine grace But as he that Baptizeth or gives the Eucharist as the old manner was into the mouth or hand of the receiver exerciseth not Jurisdiction but only a Ministeriall act so likewise he that abstains from the same actions Nor is any difference here between visible and vocall signs By what right therefore a Pastor declares in words to a man openly wicked that he is an Alien from the grace of God by the same right he forbears to exhibite Bapusme to him it being a sign of the Remission of sins or if he be Baptiz'd the Eucharist it being a signe of Communion with Christ For the signe is not to be applyed to him to whom the thing signified belongs not nor is a Pearl to be cast to Swine but as in the Churches was wont to be proclaimed by the Deacon Holy things are for holy persons Yea it is not only against verity but against charity too to make him partaker of the Holy Sacrament that discerneth not the Lord body for he eateth and drinketh damnation to himself Here then seeing the Pastor only suspends his own act not exerciseth any right of Domiuion over the acts of other men it appears these things perteine to the use of liberty not the exercise of Jurisdiction The like in some proportion wee observe in a Physician that attending his Hydropic patient will not give him water when he cals for it because 't is hurtfull or in a grave man that will not vouchsafe a debauched man the honour of Salutation and in those that avoid the company of men infected with Leprosie or other contagious disease We have looked upon the actions proper unto Pastors let us come to them which belong unto the Church or are common to the Pastor with the Church First then the people that we may speak with Cyprian in obedience to the Precepts of our Lord ought to separate themselves from a sinfull Pastor For command is given to every one particularly and to all in generall to take heed of false Prophets to sly from a strange shepheard to avoid them that cause divisions and offences comrary to the doctrine Secondly the faith full are commanded to decline their familiar conversation who being named brethren are Whormongers Idolaters Railers Drunkards Greedy Heretiques making a gain of godliness or otherwise behaving themselves inordinately against the Institution of Christ Withdraw your selves from such be not mingled with them turn away from them eat not with them saith the Apostle Paul in sundry places For such men are as the Apostle Jude speaks spots in the love feasts of Christians Wherefore when the Scripture makes use of these words 't is manifest no act is signified greater than a private one for what is the Church here bid to do but what a Disciple doth when he deserts an evill Doctor or honest men doe when they renounce the friendship or society of their Companions fallen into wickednesse The words that afterward came into use Deposition of the Pastor and Excommunication of the Brethren seem to come neerer to the nature of Command but words are to be measured by the matter not matter by the words A Church is said to depose the Pastor when it ceaseth to use his Pastorship to Excommunicate a brother when it withdrawes it self from his Communion in both cases it useth its own right taketh away no right from another and although it doth not that without judgement whence also the faithfull are said to judge those that are within it exerciseth no Jurisdiction properly so called for Jurisdiction is of a Superiour over the Inferiour but Judgement is often among equalls as in that place Judge not that ye be not judged Having weighed what is of Divine right let us now see whit hath been added either Canonicall or Legall This was Canonicall and sprung from the Pastors Counsell and the Churches consent that inquisition began to be made into actions also not manifest and that such as abstained not from their sin were not admitted to the Holy Communion but after a certain space of time for it was not unlawfull to doe otherwise but this way was more expedient both for the lapsed and for others For the lapsed that they might the more detest their sin for others that the example might deterre them from the like offence Hence it was that persons guilty of some grievous crime first bewailed their fault for a while without the Temple and after by severall steps were admitted to the Prayers of the faithfull and last of all to the Sacred Mysteries With the like severity did the Essens of old chastise the offences of their order as Josephus relates and at this day the Jewes being but meerly private men doe enjoyn penalties to the followers of their sect that are delinquents He that hath kill'd a man standing out of doores proclames himself a man-slayer To others are appointed abstinence stripes and exile also for what is wanting to the Power of