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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
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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⟩take them for their own, though his conscience be against it, as is aforesaid.
XVIII. He hath no power to forbear pronouncing Absolution from all sin in absolute terms, to any sick man that will say he repenteth, and desire it, though by never so much evidence the Priest judge it to be either counterfeit, or from mere attrition or fear, without love.
XVIII. He hath no power to forbear pronouncing Absolution from all sin in absolute terms, to any sick man that will say he repenteth, and desire it, though by never so much evidence the Priest judge it to be either counterfeit, or from meer attrition or fear, without love.