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.

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.

The consequence is plain from the staple rule, Ejusdem est insti∣tuere, destituere.

The antecedent is as certain by warrant from the Word; Be∣ware of wolves, Matth. 7.15. Beware of false Prophets, Phil. 3.2.

Master R. answers, p. 265.

Its true, the People have power to

reject him from being their Minister or Pastor, but their power reach∣eth not so far as to reject him from being no Pastor.

Reply. If this be true, then a species may be destroyed, and the generall nature in it preserved; the particular and indi∣viduall nature of Thomas or John may perish and be dissol∣ved, and yet that generall nature of Thomas or John shall still be safe and maintained, which is, I confesse, beyond my under∣standing.

2. However, this I am sure of, unlesse the fundamentall rule of reason fail, Sublato uno relatorum, tollitur alterum, and they are but unum uni; and therefore if that relation betwixt them two fail, it fails altogether.

Lastly, this rejection cuts him off from being a member in that Congregation where he was, and so from every visible Congregation, therefore cuts him off from having any visible Church-communion with Christ, as a Politicall head of the visible Church, therefore from being any ministeriall member, and so an Eye, or Hand, or Officer in that Body.