Blair Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

DO THOGHA NA MIN1SDREADH.
gan tfeachran.
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UDO MHINISDRIBH
Eagluife Dè & da dtogha lab-
hrus fo feafda, agas dona coin-
gheallaibh dhligheas fiad do
bheith iondta.
d:
ENADH an Eagluis togha mha
ith ar Mhinifdir ar nach bi toirme
afg, no bacail do reir aneafbuil Pòil, &
is amhlaidh fo orduidheas Pol doibh :
deaghchoinghill, agas deighbhefa ma-
ithe indraca inmholtha do bheith ind-
ta, as go madh eidir leo curam anoifige
do ghabhail chuca, agas tareis an chu-
raimfin do ghabhail orra : anobair agas
anoifige do dhenamh go maith neam-
heafbhadhach : In dara ni briathra
De' do theagafg, agas do chur agceill
go firindeach dona poibleachaibh, &
freafdal na Sacramuindte go glan di-
ngmhalta : agas curam agas deithneas
but also privatly to admonisshe them ; remembring alwais, that if
any thinge perysshe throughe his defaute, the Lorde will require it
at his handes.
Of their Office and Deutie.
Becawse the charge of the Word of God is of greater importaunce
then that any man is able to dispense therwith ; and Saincte Paule
exhorteth to esteme them as ministers of Christe, and disposers of
God's mysteries ; not lordes or rulers, as S. Teter saith, over the
flocke. Therfore the pastor's or minister's chief office standeth in
preaching the Worde of God, and ministring the sacraments. So
that in consultations, judgementes, elections, and other politicall
affairs, his counsel, rather then autoritie, taketh place.
And if so be the Congregation, uppon juste cawse, agreeth to
excommunicate, then it belongeth to the minister, according to
their general determination, to pronounce the sentence, to the end
that all thinges may be done orderly, and withoute confusion.
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