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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 4
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§ 1. You next choose to speak of our Assent and Consent to the Bishop's Oath [to subject himself in obedience to the Arch-Bishop, and to his Seat or Metropolitan Church, and to his Successors.] And you tell us that all men are bound to subject themselves one to another: This again is too gross equivocating. Do you believe that this is the Species of subjection, which is meant in the Book and Oath?
§ 1. YOu next choose to speak of our Assent and Consent to the Bishop's Oath [to subject himself in obedience to the Arch-Bishop, and to his Seat or Metropolitan Church, and to his Successors.] And you tell us that all men are bound to subject themselves one to another: This again is too gross equivocating. Do you believe that this is the Species of subjection, which is meant in the Book and Oath?
§ 2. You better tell us, that being Episcopus primae sedis, he may be reverenced as the Fore-man of a Jury.] But is this obeying him, and his Church and Successors? Is not this also Equivocation? Do they swear Obedience to the Fore-man and his Successors?]
§ 2. You better tell us, that being Episcopus primae sedis, he may be reverenced as the Fore-man of a Iury.] But is this obeying him, and his Church and Successors? Is not this also Equivocation? Do they swear Obedience to the Fore-man and his Successors?]
§ 3. Your best answer is, It is enjoined by Authority.] And if it were but obeying them in Civils, or circa sacra, in matters determinable by the King; this answer had much in it: B•• when it is intended to be in the exercise of the Word, and Keys, and Matters which Christ hath predetermined, those Non-Conformists that are not for the Divine Right of Arch-Bishops, cannot assent and consent to it: And those of them that are for it, do (with you) hold that there should be Parochial Bishops, or to every Church; and that those that you call Diocesans are indeed Arch-Bishops: And they are not for Arch-Bishops over Arch-Bishops, lest it lead you to a Pope, (as he was in the Empire at least.)