item: #1 of 6
          id: A30479
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet.
        date: 1677.0
       words: 51115
      flesch: 58
     summary: A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet. A vindication of the ordinations of the Church of England in which it is demonstrated that all the essentials of ordination, according to the practice of the primitive and Greek churches, are still retained in our Church : in answer to a paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the nullity of our orders and given to a Person of Quality / by Gilbert Burnet.
    keywords: act; ages; authority; bishops; blessing; blood; body; christ; church; churches; clergy; collects; consecration; council; cum; england; father; form; general; ghost; giving; god; good; grace; great; greek; hands; head; holy; imposition; jurisdiction; king; law; lord; matter; new; office; orders; ordination; parliament; people; persons; pope; power; prayer; present; priests; protestant; reason; rites; ritual; roman; rome; sacrament; sacrifice; second; set; shall; sins; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; words; years
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A34187
      author: Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.
       title: The Bishop of London's ninth conference with his clergy upon the fifth and tenth injunctions given by the King, February the 15th, 1694/5 held in the years 1695 and 1696.
        date: 1699.0
       words: 6373
      flesch: 69
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. These were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by St. Paul.
    keywords: canon; church; god; good; man; men; tcp; text; things
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A41500
      author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
       title: Prelatique preachers none of Christ's teachers, or, A Disswasive unto the people of God from attending the ministry (so called) of those, who preach by verture of an (Apocryphal) ordination, received from an order of men, commonly stiled Lord Bishops wherein arguments are tendered to their serious considerations, by way of motive against that practice ... .
        date: 1663.0
       words: 41267
      flesch: 45
     summary: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in pretence , when they who preach him , are acted and moved hereunto by indirect and unworthy ends , and yet would be thought to preach him in truth , [ that is , out of a sincere and upright intention , and desire , to serve God , and man in the work . ] For there is an aptness in knowledge , in conjunction with the weakness and vanity of the heart of man , to puff men up ( as the Apostle speaketh ) which is as contrary to Edification , as contrary may be , unless the flatulency and windiness of it be corrected by the Grace and Blessing of God.
    keywords: apostle; bishops; case; christ; christian; church; consideration; god; good; gospel; hand; hath; high; holy; kind; man; means; men; ministers; ministry; people; persons; power; saints; things; time; truth; way; work; world; worship; yea
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A53660
      author: Owen, James, 1654-1706.
       title: A plea for Scripture ordination, or, Ten arguments from Scripture and antiquity proving ordination by presbyters without bishops to be valid by J.O. ... ; to which is prefixt an epistle by the Reverend Mr. Daniel Williams.
        date: 1694.0
       words: 35499
      flesch: 69
     summary: No Ordainers can dispense with the want of these ; nor is the Ministerial Office conveighed by the greatest Solemnities to any Man void of these Qualifications ; though the best accomplished may awfully say , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 2 Cor. The Syriac Translation , which is so very ancient , that it comes nearest in time to the Original , useth not two words , one for Bishop , another for Presbyter , as our Translation and the Greek , but it hath only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word in Chaldee and in Syriac signifies Presbyters .
    keywords: acts; apostles; arch; bishops; canons; christ; church; churches; council; deacons; doctrine; doth; england; english; ephesus; epistle; est; god; gospel; hands; hath; hist; lib; lord; man; meer; men; ministers; ministry; non; office; ordaining; order; ordination; paul; people; persons; peter; pope; popish; power; presbyters; qui; roman; rome; saith; scripture; succession; successors; time; timothy; work
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A53898
      author: Pearson, John, 1613-1686.
       title: Promiscuous ordinations are destructive to the honour & safety of the Church of England (if they should be allowed in it). Written in a letter to a person of quality.
        date: 1668.0
       words: 2827
      flesch: 51
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).
    keywords: church; eebo; ordination; person; tcp; text
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A86000
      author: Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
       title: A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
        date: 1647.0
       words: 15843
      flesch: 52
     summary: A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647.
    keywords: authority; christ; church; churches; civill; discipline; doth; ecclesiasticall; excommunication; faith; god; government; hath; holy; lord; magistrate; ministers; power; spirituall; things; word
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