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An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
THE PAPERS That passed between the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by his M… › Preface › Section 11
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[The Case of St. Paul not eating flesh,1 if it offended his Brother, is nothing to the purpose; who there speaks of things, not Commanded either by God, or by his Church, neither having in them any thing of Decency, or Significancy to serve in the Church; St. Paul would deny himself his own Liberty, rather than offend his Brother. But if any man breaks a just Law or Custom of the Church, he brands him for a Lover of Schism and Sedition, 1 Cor. 11. 16.]
[The Case of St. Paul not eating flesh,1 if it offended his Brother, is nothing to the purpose; who there speakes of things, not Commanded either by God, or by his Church, neither having in them any thing of Decency, or Significancy to serve in the Church; St. Paul would deny himself his own Liberty, rather than offend his Brother. Bnt if any man breakes a just Law or Custom of the Church, he brands him for a Lover of Schisme and Sedition, 1 Cor. 11. 16.]
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Repl. 1But because at our last Meeting, it was said with so much confidence by one, that the Case in Rom. 14. and 15. was nothing to ours, we shall here say the more to what you say, that Pauls not eating flesh is nothing to the purpose: your reasons are, 1. Because he speaks of nothing commanded by God, or his Church. 2. Nor of any thing of Decency, or significancy to serve in the Church. To the first we have often told you, that which is undeniable, 1. That Paul was a Governor of that Church himself, that had no Superior to con trole him: If you say then, that he wrote not as a Governor; we Answer, yes: for he wrote as an Apostle, and wrote that Epistle that was to be a standing Law, or Canon to them; If this be no act of his Office, and Authority, there was none such; And then you must say the like of all the rest of the Epistles. 2. Moreover as Paul the Apostle excludeth all such impositions, so he wrote to all the Resident Pastors that were at Rome, for he wrote to the whole Church: and therefore these commands extend to the Governors, that they make not such things the matter of Contempt or Censures, or any uncharitable course, but bear with one another in