Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

But remember again you that are Subjects to such Councils and Prelates, that it is by them judged Heresy to be Loyal, and to plead for the Clergies subjection to Kings.

But remember again you that are Subjects to such Councils and Prelates, that it is by them judged Heresie to be Loyal, and to plead for the Clergies subjection to Kings.

§ 88. The Heresy of Wecilo was here also condemned, that said (as they report him) That when the secular Men were spoiled of their Estates and Goods, (it's like by the Ecclesiastics) they were not bound to obey the Ecclesiastics, ⟨p. 370⟩and might be received by others, when they were Excommunicate. It was therefore decreed,¹ [That whoever was Excommunicate by his Bishop, that Bishop not being himself Excommunicate, or deprived of his Office, though it were unjustly done, should by no means be received to Communion (by any other) unless absolved in the Ecclesiastical manner.] And so God must be disobeyed, that commandeth the Faithful to worship him in Sacramental Communion, whenever any proud, malicious or drunken Prelate will forbid him: And must so live and die, unless his Masters will repent of their injuries. When as it is usual for one injury to engage a Man to more, or to continue it, for the justification of the first.

§ 88. The Heresie of Wecilo was here also condemned, that said (as they report him) That when the secular Men were spoiled of their Estates and Goods, (it's like by the Ecclesiasticks) they were not bound to obey the Ecclesiasticks, ⟨p. 370⟩and might be received by others, when they were Excommunicate. It was therefore decreed,¹ [That whoever was Excommunicate by his Bishop, that Bishop not being himself Excommunicate, or deprived of his Office, though it were unjustly done, should by no means be received to Communion (by any other) unless absolved in the Ecclesiastical manner.] And so God must be disobeyed, that commandeth the Faithful to worship him in Sacramental Communion, whenever any proud, malicious or drunken Prelate will forbid him: And must so live and die, unless his Masters will repent of their injuries. When as it is usual for one injury to engage a Man to more, or to continue it, for the justification of the first.