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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	acknowledge_v	beseech_v	great_a	33	3	2.1554	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88083	Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right. In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1831; Thomason E1010_11; ESTC R202720	19,588	24

was made Confirmed and Consecrated Archbishop by Authority of the Queen and that she had her Authority for it from the Statutes of 25. H. 8. 20. 1. Eliz. 1. 3. From that Clause in the Commission it self for the Confirming and Consecrating of Matthew Parker wherein she expresly refers to the Statutes made in that behalf meaning those two aforenamed Juxta formam saith she Statutorum in ea parte provisorum editorum According to the form of the Statutes in this case made and set forth As much as to say that the Patent was grounded upon those Statutes And so I have abundantly demonstrated my Thesis as to you That you have no Authority to preach but what you have originally from the Parliament The second Part. Demonstrating to a Presbyterian Minister that he hath no Authority to preach from Christ but onely from the Parliament SIr I shall suppose your Case the best that can be supposed of any Presbyterian Minister in England viz. That William Juxon late Bishop of London being a true Presbyter together with all the Presbyters then of London assisting him Ordained twelve Presbyters whom afterward he placed as Pastors or preaching Ministers in so many Parish Churches in London lying next to one another These twelve preaching Ministers were the first Classical Presbytery that after the abolishing of Bishops was erected in the Nation And the Church of N. within the Precinct of that Classis falling void they Ordained you a Presbyter and afterward gave you Mission to that Congregation of N. that is placed you to be the Pastor or preaching Minister of it And I say that in this Case you have no authority to preach to that Congregation from Christ but onely from the Parliament And I make it good by this Argument You have no Authority from Christ to preach to that Congregation but what you have either by your Ordination or your Mission But you have no Authority to preach to that Congregation by your Ordination and none from him but from the Parliament onely by your Mission Therefore you have none from him but onely from the Parliament The Major is supposed in the Case nor is there any third ordinary way imaginable and you pretend not to extraordinary The first part of the Minor That you have no Authority to preach to that Congregation by your Ordination I prove from the form of it which supposing it the same as is prescribed in your Directory was this The Presbytery of that Classis laid their hands upon you accompanying it with a short Prayer or Blessing by the Preacher who carried on the Work of that day to this effect Thankefully acknowledging c. for fitting and inclining this man to this great work we beseech him to fill him with his holy Spirit whom in his name here they laid their hands upon you we set apart to this holy Service to fulfill the work of his Ministery in all things that he may save both himself and his people committed to his charge In which words added to the Imposition of hands to interpret the meaning of it that it might not be a dumb Ceremony you see there is not one syllable of authorizing you to preach to that Congregation of N. but onely that they who laid their hands on you set you apart to this great and holy work and office of the Ministery that is that by in or with that Imposition of hands there was given to you from and by Christ himself immediately a divine power lawfully to execute the Office of preaching and ministring Sacraments in Christs name and with his authority to that Congregation unto which you were then designed or to any other in the Nation or in the world whereunto you should be duly admitted And that this power I speak of was all that these words or the Imposition of bands gave you and not any Authority as to that Congregation of N. is manifest because if they gave you Authority to that Congregation it was either to that Congregation alone or to more then that If to that alone you could not be admitted as Minister to any other Congregation without being anew Ordained which you count neither necessary nor lawful (a) If a Minister be designed to a Congregation who hath been formerly Ordained Presbyter let him be admitted after examination without any new Ordination And if to more then that it must be to any or every one in the Nation and in the world because the words name none nor mean no one more then another and authorized you as much to every one as to any one or else when you should be admitted to Officiate in any Congregation neither you nor the people could be certain whether that were one of the Congregations or no to which your Ordination authorized you which uncertainty would render it useless as to any one And if you say your Ordination authorized you to every one you would be a Pastor Apostolique or such a one as the Apostles were that is universal created by Christ immediately and consequently supream subject to no Classis Synod Parliament or other mortal superiour which would utterly overthrow all your form of Church Government and Discipline For then you might preach and minister Sacraments in any Church where you should please against the Pastors will then all Admissions of Presbyters to be preaching Ministers to such or such a Church would be vain absurd and arrogant acts Then no Classis Synod or Parliament could for any crime whatsoever convent or silence you and much less depose or eject you In fine then there would be no distinction betwixt Pastors and flocks Of necessity therefore to avoid such horrid absurdities the first part of my minor must be granted me That you have no authority by your Ordination to preach in that Congregation The second part of the Minor That you have no authority from Christ but onely from the Parliament by your Mission I thus make good They who gave you your Mission had no Authority from Christ but onely from the Parliament to give it you Therefore you have no Authority from Christ but onely from the Parliament by your Mission The Consequence is evident in the terms The Antecedent is firm for two reasons First because those Presbyters who gave you Mission were no Ministers of those Churches by any Divine Right or Authority from Christ but onely of the Parliament because placed in those Churches by the Bishop of London as he was Bishop of London which I am sure you will not cannot dare not say he was by authority from Christ for then it had been a wicked and sacrilegious act in the Parliament to deprive him of his Bishoprick and in you to advise and encourage them to it nor by any other Authority but that of the Parliament for then it had exceeded the power of the Parliament to deprive him of it Nor can you say those Ministers were placed in those Churches by him in any