This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ... exercise any Ecclesiastical function of authority in the Church, as preaching, ministering the sacraments, excommunication, &c. And yet the Scripture alloweth a ministry or service of women to the Church, namely to comfort and help the poor, as we read Rom. 16, 1. Phcebe of Cenchris: and that served the church in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ... exercise any Ecclesiastical function of authority in the Church, as preaching, ministering the sacraments, excommunication, &c. And yet the Scripture alloweth a ministry or service of women to the Church, namely to comfort and help the poor, as we read Rom. 16, 1. Phcebe of Cenchris: and that served the church in the same office. But when you exclude them from all spiritual regimen, Ecclesiastical function, and cure of souls, I marvel whether the office of an Abbess, or Prioress among you, be counted mere civil and temporal functions, and have no cure of souls directly pertainmg to them. But howsoever they are accounted with you. in the church of God, to whomsoever God committeth authority and government, he committeth also directly and specially the care of souls, and not of bodies only, yet this cure to be exercised according to the distinct and several limits of Ecclesiastical and civil functions. Therefore the Father and Mother, Masterand Mistress, Lord and Lady, King and Queen, have care of the souls of their children, scholars, servants, and subjects, and not of their bodies only. Parents are commanded to bring up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, Ephes. 6, 4. Whereby it is manifest they must have care of their souls, and so must all other governors, as Masters, Magistrates, and Princes, every one in his calling, according to his authority. Therefore Princes, be they men or women, ought to have care of their subjects' souls, and to provide for the same by making Ecclesiastical laws and compelling their subjects to serve God accordmg to his laws. Therefore to deny unto women ail care of souls, and to say they have no authority to make Ecclesiastical laws, by which their subjects shall be compelled to serve God accordmg ...
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