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THE PROTESTERS’ CONSIDERATIONS OF
THE ORDER OF DUTIE OF MINISTERS,
PROVIDED IN THE LATE ORDINANCE DATED AT
Westminster, the 1654,
BROUGHT DOWN BY Mr. P. GlLLESPIE
That the Ministers and others nominated by the
Lord Protector and his Counsell cannot warrant-
ably take upon them to give Certificats to such
as enter into the Ministery in the Church of Scot¬
land as is provyded in the ordinance dated at
Westminster the day of 1654.
Ffor the better determining and proveing of this asser¬
tion wee desire the giveing of these certificats as is pro¬
vyded in that ordinance to be looked upon in ordour to
the nature of that imployment. 2. In ordour to the call
that is to-it. 3. In ordour to the concomitants and con¬
sequents of it.
As to the first wee may take it in its more generall or
more particular nature. In the more generall nature of
it is an Ecclesiastick imployment, authoritative, arbitrarie
and prelaticall. That it is Ecclesiastick appears from the
tilings about which it is conversint, to witt the qualification
of Ministers both as to their life and doctrine, the judge-
ing and attesting of which is propperlie Ecclesiastick and
belonging to Presbytries. That it is authoritative may
perhaps not seeme so clear, neither doe we love to contend
about words, bot thes following considerations seeme
clearly to evince that it is upon the matter authoritative.
1. It is by an particular commission derived from these
in authoritie, which commission doth impower the persons
nominated therein unto the imployment. 2. It is acknow¬
ledged that power of testifyeing concerning the carrage
and qualification of Ministers, that it is in Presbytries
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THE ORDER OF DUTIE OF MINISTERS,
PROVIDED IN THE LATE ORDINANCE DATED AT
Westminster, the 1654,
BROUGHT DOWN BY Mr. P. GlLLESPIE
That the Ministers and others nominated by the
Lord Protector and his Counsell cannot warrant-
ably take upon them to give Certificats to such
as enter into the Ministery in the Church of Scot¬
land as is provyded in the ordinance dated at
Westminster the day of 1654.
Ffor the better determining and proveing of this asser¬
tion wee desire the giveing of these certificats as is pro¬
vyded in that ordinance to be looked upon in ordour to
the nature of that imployment. 2. In ordour to the call
that is to-it. 3. In ordour to the concomitants and con¬
sequents of it.
As to the first wee may take it in its more generall or
more particular nature. In the more generall nature of
it is an Ecclesiastick imployment, authoritative, arbitrarie
and prelaticall. That it is Ecclesiastick appears from the
tilings about which it is conversint, to witt the qualification
of Ministers both as to their life and doctrine, the judge-
ing and attesting of which is propperlie Ecclesiastick and
belonging to Presbytries. That it is authoritative may
perhaps not seeme so clear, neither doe we love to contend
about words, bot thes following considerations seeme
clearly to evince that it is upon the matter authoritative.
1. It is by an particular commission derived from these
in authoritie, which commission doth impower the persons
nominated therein unto the imployment. 2. It is acknow¬
ledged that power of testifyeing concerning the carrage
and qualification of Ministers, that it is in Presbytries
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