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A95776	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 the most reverend and learned father of our Church Dr. James Usher, late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. A true copy set forth by Nicolas Bernard, D.D. preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne occasioned by an imperfect copy lately printed.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing U217; Thomason E897_1; ESTC R203884	4,766	13

Baptismi habet jus sumus sacerdes qui est Episcopus dehinc Presbyteri Diaconi Id. de Baps. capt 17. Summus Sacerdos for distinction sake the rest of the dispensers of the Word and Sacraments joyned in the common government of the Church and therefore where in matters of Ecclesiastical Judicature Cornelius Bishop of Rome used the received forme of h Omni actu ad me perlato placuit contrahi Presbyterium Cornel. apud Cyp. epist 46. gathering together the Presbytery of what persons that did consist Cyprian sufficiently declareth when he wisheth him to read his Letters i Florentissimo illic clero tecum praesidenti Cyprian epist 55. ad Cornel. to the flourishing Clergy which there did preside or rule with him The Presence of the Clergy being thought to be so requisite in matters of Episcopal audience that in the fourth Councel of Carthage it was concluded k Ut Episcopus nullius causam audiat absque praesentia Clericorum suorum alioquin irrita erit sententia Episcopi nisi Clericorum praesentiá confirmetur Concil Carthag IIII. cap. 23. That the Bishop might hear no mans cause without the presence of the Clergy and that otherwise the Bishops sentence should be void unlesse it were confirmed by the presence of the Clergy which we finde also to be inserted into the Canons of l Excerption Egberti cap. 43. Egbert who was Arch-bishop of York in the Saxon times and afterwards into the body of the m 15. q. 7. cap. Nullus Canon Law it self True it is that in our Church this kinde of Presbyterial Government-hath been long dis-used yet seeing it still professeth that every Pastor hath a right to rule the church from whence the name of Rector also was given at first unto him and to administer the Discipline of Christ as well as to dispense the Doctrine and Sacraments and the restraint of the exercise of that right proceedeth only from the custome now received in this Realm no man can doubt but by another Law of the Land this hinderance may be well removed And how easily this ancient form of government by the united suffrages of the Clergy might be revived again and with what little shew of alteration the Synodical conventions of the Pastors of every Parish might be accorded with the Presidency of the Bishops of each Diocese and Province the indifferent Reader may quickly perceive by the perusal of the ensuing Propositions I. In every Parish the Rector or Incumbent Pastor together with the Churchwardens and Sidesmen may every week take notice of such as live scandalously in that Congregation who are to receive such several admonitions and reproofs as the quality of their offence shall deserve And if by this means they cannot be reclaimed they may be presented to the next monethly Synod and in the mean time debarred by the Pastor from access unto the Lords Table II. Whereas by a Statute in the 26 year of King Henry the eighth revived in the first year of Queen Elizabeth Suffragans are appointed to be erected in 26 several places of this Kingdom the number of them might very well be conformed unto the number of the several Rural Deanries into which every Diocese is subdivided which being 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 voices conclude all matters that shall be brought into debate before them To this Synod the Rector and Churchwardens 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 Opinions Heresies and Schisms 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 Pastors or a certain select number of every Deanry within the Diocese might meet with whose consent or the major part of them all things might be concluded by the Bishop or * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est superintendentes unde nomen Episcopi tractum est Hieron epist 85. ad Evagrium Superintendent 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 monethly Synods revised and if need be reformed and if here also any matter 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 Archbishop of either Province might be the Moderator of this meeting or in his room some one of the Bishops appointed by him and all matters 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 Archbishops and Provincial Synods of the Land might joyn together and make up a National Councel Wherein all Appeals from inferior Synods might be received all their Acts examined and all Ecclesiastical constitutions which concern the state of the Church of the whole Nation established FINIS 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 practise of the ancient Church