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The church hath, by divine institution, delivered the power of ordaining ordinary ministers to the presbytery, whereof the church consisteth repræsentative. Scriptura, saith Balduine, ordinationem tribuit toti presbyterio, non seorsim episcopo. With whom say the Professors of Leyden in like manner.
"Motus autem siderum," such is the reverent and sententious remark of Grotius, "qui eccentrici, quique epicyclici dicuntur, manifeste ostendunt non vim materiæ, sed liberi agentis ordinationem." See De Veritate Rel. Christ. Lib. i. § 7. "Now, there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears, by stealth as it were, received the veins of its whisper." Job, chap. iv. verse 12.
Ideoque nos proevidemus expedire, propter pacis caritatisque custodiam, in Abbatis pendere arbitrio ordinationem monasterii sui. . . . St. Benedict had more than apprehended; he had actually foreseen that the Abbot ought to manage his own monastery. This was the thought that paralyzed Mark's tongue when it was his turn to speak, and this was why he would not commit himself to an opinion.
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