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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 28
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§ 6. But though I will not Laugh at your Writing; I should hardly forbear if I heard you do what page 95, you say you would do, viz. [If a Bishop, or Arch-Bishop, or Chancellor, live where you are Pastor, and be a Member of your Congregation, you must needs look on your self as obliged by the Laws and Canons of the Church and State, by the Word of God, and by the Rules of the Common-prayer-Book, publicly to admonish him, if he grossly misdemean himself, and do a scandalous crime; and if he shall not by ⟨p. 110⟩open confession give satisfaction to the Church, bar him from the Sacrament, and declare him Disorderly and Contumacious, and that if he do not repent he shall perish; and warn the People to beware of such evil Courses, and to have no more to do with him than they needs must: And this I maintain to be part of the Discipline and Government of the Church of England. ]
§ 6. But though I will not Laugh at your Writing; I should hardly forbear if I heard you do what page 95, you say you would do, viz. [If a Bishop, or Arch-Bishop, or Chancellor, live where you are Pastor, and be a Member of your Congregation, you must needs look on your self as obliged by the Laws and Canons of the Church and State, by the Word of God, and by the Rules of the Common-prayer-Book, publickly to admonish him, if he grosly misdemean himself, and do a scandalous crime; and if he shall not by ⟨p. 110⟩open confession give satisfaction to the Church, bar him from the Sacrament, and declare him Disorderly and Contumacious, and that if he do not repent he shall perish; and warn the People to beware of such evil Courses, and to have no more to do with him than they needs must: And this I maintain to be part of the Discipline and Government of the Church of England. ]
Ans. I would I could see this bout. I doubt he will have something to do with you Your Chancellor had the wit to begin with you first. I pray you forget not this Case when you go to the Bishop for his sense of the Liturgy, and tell us his answer when you come Home.