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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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§ 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.]
Ans. 1. By the Can. 36. we are all to subscribe to use no other form in Administering the Sacraments but the Liturgy: And you shall be no Minister here if you subscribe not to that Canon, though you should say, It is against good Order. 2. The Liturgy it self appropriateth the whole Sponsion to the God-Fathers. 3. Our question is of the Churches sense herein: And it is the same Church the made the Canons; and still owneth them: Therefore in the Canon the Church expoundeth her sense, more obligingly than you, or any Bishop can expound it. So that for you to assent and consent to the form of Baptism in the Churches sense, and when you have done, to say that you may and must go against it, because the Canon binds not, is a method of Conforming, which I will not follow you in.
Ans. 1. By the Can. 36. we are all to subscribe to use no other form in Administring the Sacraments but the Liturgy: And you shall be no Minister here if you subscribe not to that Canon, though you should say, It is against good Order. 2. The Liturgy it self appropriateth the whole Sponsion to the God-Fathers. 3. Our question is of the Churches sense herein: And it is the same Church the made the Canons; and still owneth them: Therefore in the Canon the Church expoundeth her sense, more obligingly than you, or any Bishop can expound it. So that for you to assent and consent to the form of Baptism in the Churches sense, and when you have done, to say that you may and must go against it, because the Canon binds not, is a method of Conforming, which I will not follow you in.
§ 5. What you tell me of my Decision in my Directory, is nothing to our present Case.