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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
L. 4. Your fourth Article sets Ministers on such work as few can well do, and few will ever faithfully do. And yet for every young, raw Priest to have such power will never be granted by the Bishops or the Laity.