Thirty-Nine Articles · Chapter 23
Of ministryng in the congregation
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1. It is not lawful for any man to take vpon hym the office of publique preachyng, or ministring the Sacramentes in the congregation, before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to iudge lawfully called and sent, whiche be chosen and called to this worke by men who haue publique aucthoritie geuen vnto them in the congregation, to call and sende ministers into the Lordes vineyarde.
Commentary
- Gilbert Burnet, An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1699), on this paragraph
- Thomas Rogers, The Faith, Doctrine, and Religion, Professed, and Protected in the Realm of England, Expressed in Thirty-Nine Articles (1607), on this paragraph
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