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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 21
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CHAP. XXI.
§ 1. You entitle the next Section, of the Chancellor and his Office, and reading Excommunications, and the Order and Discipline in the Church of England. And, 1. You tell us of them that would have Unordained Ruling Elders in every Parish. But, 1. If that be ill, how will it justify Lay-Chancellors? 2. Cannot many with the Pastor better govern one Parish, than one Chancellor can many Scores, or Hundreds? 3. Some give Lay-Elders only a part of the Magistrates work, and some only to be Delegates for the People to do but what they may do, who cannot be oft present, and to be occasional Arbitrators; and some that give them any use of the Keys, take them not for Lay-men, but Ministers separated to that Ecclesiastical Office?
§ 1. YOu entitle the next Section, of the Chancellor and his Office, and reading Excommunications, and the Order and Discipline in the Church of England. And, 1. You tell us of them that would have Unordained Ruling Elders in every Parish. But, 1. If that be ill, how will it justifie Lay-Chancellors? 2. Cannot many with the Pastor better govern one Parish, than one Chancellor can many Scores, or Hundreds? 3. Some give Lay-Elders only a part of the Magistrates work, and some only to be Delegates for the People to do but what they may do, who cannot be oft present, and to be occasional Arbitrators; and some that give them any use of the Keys, take them not for Lay-men, but Ministers separated to that Ecclesiastical Office?