A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.
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- A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.
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- Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
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- M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]
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"A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
Contents
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A Preface of the Authour, By way of Introduction to this following Discourse, Wherein the attentive Reader may understand
the scope, thematter andmethod thereof, and howfar there isa joint concurrence ofmost of the Elders of New-England. -
TO THE READER, ESPECIALLY The Congregation and Church of Iesus Christ in
Hartford uponConnecticutt. - In obitum viri Doctissimi THOMAE HOOKERI Pastoris Ecclesiae Hertfordiensis, Novangliae, Collegae sui.
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On my Reverend and dear Brother, M
r THOMAS HOOKER, late Pastor of the Church atHartford onConnectiquot. - In sepulchrum Reverendissimi viri, fratris charis∣simi M. THO. HOOKERI.
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THE CONTENTS. A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline. - An Analyticall Table.
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A SURVEY of the Summe of Church-Discipline.
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CHAP. I. Ecclesiasticall Policy Defined. Ecclesiasticall Policy is a skill of ordering the affairs of Christs house, according to the pattern of his word. -
CHAP. II. The Constitution of a visible Church
in the Causes thereof: The Efficient and Matter. -
CHAP. III. Of the Invisible Church. Whether the Invisible Church be the principall, prime, and onely proper subject, to whom all the Seals, and priviledges of speciall note doe belong? -
CHAP. IV. Of theFormall cause of a visible Church, theChurch Covenant. -
CHAP. V.
Whether Baptisme doth give formality or make a member of a visible Church. -
CHAP. VI. Quest. 2.
Whether PROFESSION makes a man a member of a Congregation. -
CHAP. VII.
An Answer to Arguments made against the Church covenant. -
CHAP. VIII.
Wherein the Precedency of a Church, as it is Totum homogeneum, is handled. -
CHAP. IX. Of the Nature and Being of aPresbyteriall Church. -
Section 1. -
Section 2.-
Ground 1. -
Ground 3.- Argument 1.
- Argument 2.
- Difference 1.
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The second
Difference M.R. adds (p. 326.) is this. -
The third
Difference. - Difference 4.
- Answer.
- Difference 5.
- Answer.
- Answer.
- Answer.
- Argument 3.
- Reply.
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- Argument 4.
- Assertion.
- Answer.
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Reason 2. - Answer.
- Our 5. Argument.
- Reply.
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Argument 6. - Argument. 7.
- Argument 8.
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- Section. 3.
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Having discovered the constitution of this
Presby∣teriall Church, we are now to consider of CHAP. X. SuchArguments as M.R. alledgeth for the confir∣mation of aPresbyteriall Church, Answered. -
CHAP. XI. Touching the first Subject of Ecclesiasticall power, where the Na∣ture of it is discovered, and the Arguments brought against it answered. -
CHAP. XII. Touching the Catholick and visible Church. To the ministery and guides of the Catholick visible Church hath the Lord commit∣ted the keyes, as to the first subject. -
CHAP. XIII. Of the Catholick Church as it istotum representativum in the as∣sembling of Pastors, &c. in a generall councell. -
CHAP. XIV. Of the Church Ʋniversall, as it isTotum Integrale. -
CHAP. XV. An Answer to Mr.Hudson, concerning the Church-Catholick vi∣sible, asTotum integrale. -
CHAP. XVI.
We have now done with Church-power. Of ChurchCommunion as it is a peculiarpriviledge to themember of aChurch.
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PART II. Of the CHURCH considered as
Corpus Organicum. -
CHAP. I. Of the number of Officers therein, and the nature thereof. -
Chap. II. Wherein the nature of Ordination is discussed, and the17. Chap. ofMr. REUTERFORD is considered, and answered, as touching the power be giveth to a Pastor in and over other Congregations beside his own.-
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Conclusion. -
Conclusion II. -
Conclusion I.Ordination (as it is Popishly dispensed under the opinion of a Sacrament, and as leaving the im∣pression of anindelible Character) doth not com∣municate the essence of this outward call. -
2. Conclusion. Ordination administred according to the method and minde of MasterR. namely, as preceding the election of the People, it doth not give essentials to the outward call of a Minister.-
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Argument 2. Its not the scope of Ordination, by God appointed, to give the essen∣tials of an Officers call;therefore, from thence it is not to be expected in an orderly way. -
Argument. 3. That action which is common to persons and performances or im∣ployments, and applied to them, when there is no Office at all given,that action cannot properly be said to be a specificating act to make an Officer, or give him a Call. -
Argument 4. If Ordination give the essentials to an Officer before Election, then there may be a Pastor without People, an Officer,sine titulo, as they use to speak, and a person should be made a Pastor at large, as to follow MasterR. his similitude: the Ring that is made and compleated in the Goldsmiths shop, it's ready for any man that comes next, who will buy, being made to his hand. - Argument 1.
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Argument 2. I's lawfull for a People to reject a Pastor upon just cause (if he prove pertinaciously scandalous in his life, or heretical in his Do∣ctrine) and put him out of his Office,ergo, it is in their power al∣so to call him outwardly, and to put him into his Office. - Argument 3.
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CHAP. III. Of an INDEPENDENT Church. Wherein the state of the Question is opened, the distastefull terme ofINDEPENDENCY cleered, and the right meaning put upon it; MasterR. his Arguments in the thirteenth Chapter debated.
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PART. IV.
Concerning Synods. -
CHAP. I. WhereinM sixth Argument is de∣bated, taken out ofr . RutherfordsActs 15. and the nature of that Synod discussed, and how farrethat or any other Synod can be said to bind by any warrantfrom the Word. -
CHAP. II. Where MrRutherford his Arguments touching the Superiori∣ty of Classes and Synods above particular Congregations, are considered and answered; And they are in number6. more, set down in the15. ch. of his book. -
AN APPENDIX To the former Treatise concerningSYNODS. An Epistle of them that sent the Booke over to be Printed. - CHAP. III.
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