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tenth months. With us, by can. 31, ordination days are 
the four Sundays immediately following the Ember weeks ; 
aa the fecond Sunday in Lent, Trinity Sunday, and the 
Sundays following the firft Wednefday after Seoteniber 
the 14th, and December the 
The ordination of bifhops is more properly called confécra- 
tion ; which fee. 
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In the twelfth century they grew more remifs, and ordained 
without any title or benefic 
The council of Trent toed the ancient difcipline, 
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and appointed, that none fhould be ordained b oO 
who were provided of a benefice tae as fubfift them 
The fhadow of which prattice ftill obtains among 
e reformed hold the call of the peas de only ‘thing 
effential to the saat ia of the miniftry ; and teach, that or- 
dination is 6 eremony, which renders the call more 
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Holland, — and, Germany, Polan 
mark, e no oligo ac, 
Calvin, Bucs. Melanéthon, &c. and all the firft reformers 
and founders of thefe churches, who ordained minifters among 
them, were themfelves prefbyters, and no other. n 
though in fome of thefe churches there are minifters called 
f{uperintendants, or bifhops, yet thefe are only primi inter 
pares, the firtt among ed rieert 3 not i ahiapers: to any fupe- 
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To the ae purpofe they maintain, that the fu- 
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divine but of human inftitution, not grounded on fcripture, 
but only upon the cuftom or ordinances of this realm, by 
the firft reformers and founders of the church of England, 
nor by many of its moft learned ap eminent doétors fince. 
See Stillingfleet’s a chap. 8. p. 385. in which the 
learned author and fhews this to be the fentiment of 
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Moreover, the book intitled the « Tnftitution of a Chriftian 
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in the church. Accordingly the bifhop at the ordination 
of the pare alks, Are you called according to the will 
of our Lor us Chrift, and the due order of this realm? 
he sonics o law of England feem to know no- 
a of ae ral lineal pigk he but ae the king, 
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men. ‘They object Pi to that age which is es 
term of ordination in the church of Englan ee 
good’s Diffent from the rie of England fully wultified, 
&c. edit. 5. £779. p. 196, 
Pope Alexander II. anes emns ordination per faltum, as 
they call it; z.¢. the leaping to a fuperior order without 
pafling aly the inferio 
Ordination is one of the facraments of the church of 
O ‘DINE, order, epee aa or the combination of 
many diftiné things to make he term is ufed 
by the Italians in {peaking of “the mufic of the ancients for 
fyftem: as ordine di Mercurio, bi Terpandro, di Filitao, di 
Pitagoro, &c. to mark the order in which each of thefe 
authors arranged the founds, in their feveral fyftems, their 
number, and what diftance and proportion they gave them ; 
and they fay of a tetrachord, that it is in ordine di quattro 
corde: that 1s, sagt ed compofed of, and divifible by, four 
ai or founds. TETRACHORD. 
INGEN, in Caney. See URDENGEN. 
ORDNANCE. See ORDINANCE. 
ORDORF, in Geograpiy, a town of Saxony, in Thu- 
ringia; 10 miles S. o 
ORDO NANCE, or Oncaea in Painting, denotes 
the pee of the parts of a picture either with regard 
e piece, or to the feveral parts; as the groups, 
male ets, afpects, &c. 
e ordonnance there are three things regarded; viz. 
= place or fcene, where; the diftribution, how; and the 
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“s "the firft, regard is to be had to the cage of things 
to ferve as a ground-work ; and to the or pofition of 
bodies: under the former of which come, 1. The le padiane : 
whether an uninhabited place, where there is full liberty of 
reprefenting all the extravagancies of nature; or inhabited, 
where the marks of cultivation, &c. muft be exhibited. 
2. The building, whether ruftic; in which the painter's 
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