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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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M. If we crave that each Minister may try his Flocks, we cannot in modesty refuse those tried and received by the Bishop or other Pastors. All Churches should live in such Communion ⟨p. 249⟩with each other, as to receive each others Members on just occasion, without trying them all again. And if Bishops or any do it superficially, that's their own fault.
L. Why do you impose the Registering of Communicants?
L. Why do you impose the Registring of Communicants?
M. I impose it not, but only commend it as a help to memory. He that hath no more Communicants than he can remember, needs it not. But Bishop Jer. Taylor in his Pref. to Treatise of Repentance, saith, That a Man cannot take a Pastoral charge, or give an account of them that he knoweth not.
M. I impose it not, but only commend it as a help to memory. He that hath no more Communicants than he can remember, needs it not. But Bishop Ier. Taylor in his Pref. to Treatise of Repentance, saith, That a Man cannot take a Pastoral charge, or give an account of them that he knoweth not.