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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 20
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.
XIV. I must give it to none of the most worthy of my Flock, whom the Bishop or Lay-Chancellor will excommunicate, if it be but for not paying fees, or not appearing at his Court.
XV. The Priest must publish the Chancellor's or Bishop's Excommunication, if against the most conscionable of his Flock.
XVI. And he must publish the Chancellor's or Bishop's Absolution, though he know the party to be most unworthy.
XVII. He hath no power to judge whom to take into the Church by Baptism, but must Baptize any Child of Atheists, Brutists, Heathens, Infidels or Heretics, that have but God-fathers, who never ⟨p. 65⟩take them for their own, though his conscience be against it, as is aforesaid.
XVII. He hath no power to judge whom to take into the Church by Baptism, but must Baptize any Child of Atheists, Brutists, Heathens, Infidels or Hereticks, that have but God-fathers, who never ⟨p. 65⟩