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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.
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.
The same prohibition is for holding meetings for Sermons called Exercises: Which Arch-Bishop Grindall was zealous to set up, (Q. Was he then a Schismatic? or is the damning dangerous Engine made since?)
The same prohibition is for holding meetings for Sermons called Exercises: Which Arch-Bishop Grindall was zealous to set up, (Q. Was he then a Schismatick? or is the damning dangerous Engine made since?)
41. By Canon seventy third if any Ministers meet in any private house (as many did by consent in 1660. and 1661.) to do any thing that any way tends to impeach the Common […] or any part of the Government and Discipline (e. g. to Petition King or Parliament for the least Reformation of it) he is excommunicate ipso facto.