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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… › Churching Women.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If the woman be such as is here mentioned,1 she is to do her penance before she be Churched.]
- 1§ 3. Exc. 3.
Reply. That is, if she be accused, prosecuted, and judged by the Bishops Court to do penance first, which happeneth not to one of a multitude, and what shall the Minister do with all the rest? all tends to take away the difference between the precious and the vile, between those that fear God, and that fear him not.
Reply. That is, if she be accused, prosecuted, and judged by the Bishops Court to do penance first, which happeneth not to one of a multitude, and what shal the Minister do with all the rest? all tends to take away the difference between the precious and the vile, between those that fear God, and that fear him not.
Offerings are required as well under the Gospel as the Law,1 and amongst other times most fit it is, that oblations should be when we come to give thanks for some special blessing, Psal. 76. 10, 11. such is the deliverance in Child-bearing.]
- 1§ 4. Ex. 4