power to censure, punish, or controle the same, but are onely to advise them, and so to leave their souls to the immediate judgement of Christ.
Robins. Apol. p. 18. Licet imò incumbit Pastori unjus eccle∣siae ut & reliquis membris quod donum accepit sive spirituale sive temporale prout datur occasio, id aliis ecclesiis & earum membris impertiri, ex charitatis vinculo quo illis adunatur, non autem exequi in iis munus publicum ex authoritatis prerogativa quam in suos solos habet.
(GGG) Johns. Plea, pag. 251. To this end, and in this manner may be had a profitable use of Synods, Classes, and Assemblies for mutual help and advice in cases of question, controversie, and difficulty about Religion, so that they do not challenge or usurpe any unlawful ju∣risdiction or power over the particular Churches, and their Governours.
(HHH) Bar. Disc. p. 261. These secret Classes, these ordinary set Synods which the Reformists would set up.
(III) Bar. Refut. p. 81. In a Christian Synod no Christian ought to be shut out, but all have equal power to speak, assent or dissent, without disturbing the Order of the Holy Church, by presuming to speak before the Ancients, or against any thing said by them without just cause; who so doth, is reproved of all, judged of all as a disturber.
(KKK) Vide supra. III.
(LLL) Bar. Disc. p. 261. In their Synods the matters being de∣bated, the greatest part prevaileth, and carrieth the judgement.
Ibid. p. 78. This balloting by suffrage or pluralty of voices, might well be a custom among the Heathen in their popular Govern∣ment, but it is unheard of, and unsufferable in the Church of Christ.
(MMM) Ibid. p. 261. The order and manner of these Counsel••▪ is, first to chuse a Prolocutor, Moderator, or Judge to govern, and or∣der the action, who, and when they shall speak, and when cease.
Ibid. p. 191. Not here to speak of their solemn Order observed in these Counsels and Synods, as their choice by suffrages among themselves of their Archisynagogos or Rectorchori, their President as they call him.
(NNN) Vide supra. FFF.
(OOO) Bar. Disc. p. 38. Every Member of his Church is to pronounce upon them the judgements that are written, and to throw upon them the Stone of his judgement and consent: Therefore hath the Lord raised up the Thrones of David in his Church, and set his Saints in seats round about his Throne. A Light for the Ignorant, pag. 10. The true power which Christ our King hath received of