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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26998	The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.; Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1359; ESTC R1422	79,512	227

1. That God often gave miraculous interior gifts to men by the Imposition of the Apostles hands 2. And if he please he may now bless Ordination to the increase of men's mental fitness for the Ministry and when he doth so we know not But we hold 1. That men should be supposed by the Ordinances to be true Christians and to have competent Ministerial Abilities before they Ordain them 2. That now miraculous gifts cease no man can tell when any other inward Grace is given by Imposition of hands in Ordination than Relative which is Obligation and Authority for the work of the Ministry And Durandus and other of their School-men say that their Indelible Character is no other And the rest know not what to make of it 3. If we read of Multitudes of Debauched Ignorant Apostatical Popes and Prelates and many Ages of Church Barbarism and Bruitishness even in Baroni●s Genebrard and the fiercest Papists and if we see Priests after Ordination to be Ignorant Drunkards Fornicators unable and unapt to Teach haters of a Godly Life we cannot tell what Grace it is that these men are said to receive in Ordination Whatever it is it will not keep them out of Hell as it keeps them not from serving Satan 4. We take an ordinary Calling and Mission to be ordinarily needful to the Church Ministry This Calling consisteth 1. In necessary Abilities without which God sendeth none 2. In willingness and Consent 3. In the Ordination by Senior Pastors where it may be had 4. And to fix them in relation to particular Congregations the mutual consent of themselves and the Flocks 5. But we know Rules of meer Order are for the things ordered and the Edification of the Church for which all Church Power is given and God Commandeth that all be done And we know that God who will have Mercy and not Sacrifice would not have us destroy the substance by pretence of a Ceremony And that in several Cases Ministers may be lawfully called without Imposition of hands and Canonical Ordination As 1. In case men be cast into Infidel Countries where no Bishops or Pastors can be had As by Shipwrack or Merchants Factory or Embassadors or when a Bishop with them dyeth by the way They must not be without all publick Church Worship for want of an Imposing Bishop 2. In case Persecution drive all the Bishops out of reach 3. In case the persecuted Bishops refuse to Ordain for fear of suffering 4. In case the Bishops be Hereticks or intollerable Usurpers and no true Bishops wanting the Essentials of a Qualification and a Call 5. In case the Bishops impose any false Oath Subscription Covenant or Profession or any other Sin as the Condition without which they will not Ordain which is the case of all the Papists Prelates their Ordination in these cases is not necessary 6. We know that in such cases the Ministry faileth not but there may be a true succession of Pastors though regular Canonical Ordination be interrupted For there is nothing necessary after Gods Law which specifieth the Office by stated Institution but only the determining who the Persons are that God would have in this Office Which may be well known without Canonical Ordination where that cannot lawfully be had There are instances in the ancient Churches that when some Elected to be Bishops fled or hid themselves the Bishops Ordained them absent by writing without imposition of hands 7. Yea we know that if in any one Church or Nation the succession were totally interrupted for many years God hath left means sufficient to restore it 1. His Word describeth the Office and giveth the Authority and obligation to the Person when determined of 2. That Determination may be made 1. By the due Qualification of the Person 2. The inviting Necessities of the People and opportunity 3. Mutual Consent and without these the Ordination and Mission of a Bishop is vain 8. The Church of Rome more needeth this Doctrine than the Protestants For it is notoriously certain that regular Succession hath failed oft and long in the Papacy and consequently in its Clergy 1. There is no more notorious interruption than by the utter incapacity of the Unqualified And such have been those that were Children or declared Sots Beasts Simonists filthy Lechers Hereticks Infidels Schismaticks by General Council and the most Papal Historians Their Succession now is from Eugenius the 4th deposed as an Heretick by a General Council 2. When there have been two or three Popes above twenty times no man knoweth which was the right 3. Either Election is in the power of some in special or not if not the Turks or Heathens or Hereticks may choose a Pope If it be Then who have the Power It s known that at first the Bishop of Rome was chosen by the People of one Congregation After by the Clergy and people of the Christians of the City After that by the Bishops of the Diocess Sometimes by the Emperors Or Arrian Kings with the Clergy and people Sometimes by General Councils Sometimes against General Councils by an Armed Faction And of late times by things called a Colledge of Cardinals If all these were lawful no one sort have the Electing Power If any was unlawful the Succession hath been interrupted 4. Either the Ordination of a Superior is necessary or not If yea then the Pope having no Superior was never truly Ordained If not then a Presbyter may be Ordained without a Bishop Rome is more concerned to answer these things than we The Four and Fortieth accused Point That Priests and other Religious persons who have Vowed their Chastity to God may freely Marry notwithstanding their Vow Ans 1. Must none keep Vows but Priests and Religious People 2. The known Doctrine of the Protestants about Oaths and Vows which you may see in Sanderson de Juramento is 1. That Antecedently it is unlawful to ensnare our selves by unneecssary Vows of that which is out of our Power or so mutable that it may hereafter be made our Duty which now is not 2. But having once Vowed we must distinguish of the Imposing the making of the Vow and the Matter of it And that 1. Though it was by Parents or others unlawfully imposed 2. And by our selves by temerity unlawfully made or sworn 3. Yet if the Matter consideratis considerandis be necessary or lawful the Vow must be kept But if it be Sin that is Vowed it must not be done Because Man's Vows cannot abrogate or suspend Gods Laws Can any of your Casuists deny this Therefore if Boys or Girls Vow Chastity and it prove thar they cannot keep it without sin the Matter becometh to them unlawful and they must break it As for instance 1. If they cannot keep it without apparent hurt to their Souls by Lust 2. Or if the Heir of the Crown or some great Estate Vow it and if he keep it the Kingdom or Church is like to suffer by it 3. If Parents or