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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
39. The seventy first Canon suspendeth all Ministers that Preach in any private house (except to the sick or impotent in time of necessity.) By which had Paul here preached publicly and from house to house, or Timothy in season and out of season as dreadfully adjured, or Christ preached as he oft did, they must be suspended: And every Minister that preacheth to his Family: And no doubt, repeating his Sermon, is preaching the same again.
39. The seventy first Canon suspendeth all Ministers that Preach in any private house (except to the sick or impotent in time of necessity.) By which had Paul here preached publickly and from house to house, or Timothy in season and out of season as dreadfully adjured, or Christ preacht as he oft did, they must be suspended: And every Minister that preacheth to his Family: And no doubt, repeating his Sermon, is preaching the same again.
40. All Ministers must be suspended and then excommunicate, that without the Bishops Licence appoint or keep any solemn Fasts publicly or in private houses, other than by Law appointed, or be wittingly present at any: Though it were in time of Plague, or when divers of his Neighbours are sick or troubled in Conscience, or in preparation to a Sacrament, or on some great occasion in Noble-mens Houses and Chapels: He is not to be trusted to fast and pray with his own Flock or Friends, or come among them, lest being excommunicate he be a damned Schismatic.
40. All Ministers must be suspended and then excommunicate, that without the Bishops Licence appoint or keep any solemn Fasts publickly or in private houses, other than by Law appointed, or be wittingly present at any: Though it were in time of Plague, or when divers of his Neighbours are sick or troubled in Conscience, or in preparation to a Sacrament, or on some great occasion in Noble-mens Houses and Chappels: He is not to be trusted to fast and pray with his own Flock or Friends, or come among them, lest being excommunicate he be a damn'd Schismatick.