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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 16
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§ 2. But you say, The Parent is not excluded nor forbid to be present.] Ans. But 1. No man in the Town is forbid to be present: Doth it follow that any man giveth title to the Child who may but ⟨p. 28⟩be present if he will? If the Parents Faith were thought necessary to the Title (or a Pro-parents) the Book would require it, and require the Minister to take account of it, or at least would suffer the Parent to be one of the Sponsors, or to speak one word of Sponsion, all which is expressly forbidden by the Canon, and by the Book appropriated to others.
§ 2. But you say, The Parent is not excluded nor forbid to be present.] Ans. But 1. No man in the Town is forbid to be present: Doth it follow that any man giveth title to the Child who may but ⟨p. 28⟩be present if he will? If the Parents Faith were thought necessary to the Title (or a Pro-parents) the Book would require it, and require the Minister to take account of it, or at least would suffer the Parent to be one of the Sponsors, or to speak one word of Sponsion, all which is expresly forbidden by the Canon, and by the Book appropriated to others.
§ 3. But you say, If he will he may profess and Covenant for his Child, yea, the Minister may and ought to urge and require him.] Ans. What, and yet Conform? When he is forbid, and the Minister forbid to suffer it?
§ 4. But say you, [The Canon is no part of the Liturgy, nor are we bound to it wherein it is against the Liturgy and good Order.]