Trollope on Article XXIII: Of Ministering in the Congregation
William Trollope, 1850
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Article XXIII. Of Ministering in the Congregation
It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of publick preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same.
And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publick authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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Two distinct propositions are maintained in this Article : — in the first of which it is asserted that no man can exercise the functions of the Christian ministry, unless he be Maw- ’ fully called and sent to execute the same;’ and in the second, that his commission must be received from those
-who have public authority to call and send him. [Both these points are fully illustrated in the Questions on the Liturgy y Sect. xvi. See also Sect. I. qq. 6, 7.].
- Shew that the positions maintained in this Article, are in accordance with the sentiments of the early Fathers.
Clement of Rome (Ep. ad Cor. o. 44.) observeB that, as Christ was sent by God^ and the Apostles by Christ, so the Apostles, when preaching the Gospel in countries and cities, chose persons, oj whom they had a perject knowledge, ana invested them with the pastoral care; in order that after their deaths other men also, having Jirst been tried and approved, might succeed them in their office, Jerome (Ftcem. in Matth.) teaches, that in those who come uncalled, there is presumption and temerity ; but in those who are sent, the obedience qf servants. See also Ignat. ad Ephes. c. 3. Cyprian. Epist. 69. Augustin. adv. Faust. Manich. XVI. 12. Ambrofi. Epist. 44.
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