From the time that one has consented to make choice of him to settle him in the Office of the Holy Ministry, he is ingag'd by a kind of promise that he is bound in Conscience to accomplish; so that it is just to represent his Duty to him, and to exhort him to bear without reluctancy the yoke which he had a design to take on him. Nevertheless, because these kind of actions should be free, and that the work of the Lord ought to be without constraint, it cannot reasonably be used towards those which refuse to accept this Office, whatever in∣clination they had to it before; according to which the third Council of Orleance assembled Anno Dom. 538. dis∣charges the Pastors which were chosen into Orders by force, or against their will; it discharges them from their Employment, without debarring them from the Com∣munion; * 1.1 but as for Bishops that have the confidence to make such Ordinations, the Synod imposes on them a years Penance, and suspends them from the functions of their Ministry. The 36th. Canon of those which go in
Conformity of the ecclesiastical discipline of the Reformed churches of France with that of the primitive Christians written by M. La Rocque ... ; render'd into English by Jos. Walker.
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- Conformity of the ecclesiastical discipline of the Reformed churches of France with that of the primitive Christians written by M. La Rocque ... ; render'd into English by Jos. Walker.
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- Larroque, Matthieu de, 1619-1684.
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- London :: Printed for Tho. Cockbrill ...,
- 1691.
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- Huguenots -- France.
- Church polity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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the Apostles Names, differs a little from this practice, and is something more severe. In the main, the ancient Discipline never approved force nor constraint in these Occasions, altho some instances are found in the Eccle∣siastical History.
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* 1.1
Can. 7. t. 1. Conc. Gal. p. 250.