A26924:1014
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.
M. If every Priest must administer it, he must judge to whom: It is not a common food for all, but the Children's Bread. If every Priest must judge whom to baptize, so he must whom to give this Sacrament to. 2. The Canons allow this as to the scandalous, so we do but present them to the Bishop or Chancellor; and it's less offensive to suspend them without such prosecution. If he wrong any, they have their remedy.
M. If every Priest must administer it, he must judge to whom: It is not a common food for all, but the Childrens Bread. If every Priest must judge whom to baptize, so he must whom to give this Sacrament to. 2. The Canons allow this as to the scandalous, so we do but present them to the Bishop or Chancellour; and it's less offensive to suspend them without such prosecution. If he wrong any, they have their remedy.
L. But why do you mention no more solemn Excommunication, but this Declarative one and Suspension?
M. Because I would ask no more than needs of men that will not grant so much. And I know no just Excommunication but a Ministerial declaring according to God's word, that a man hath made himself uncapable of Church-Communion and of the benefits of Gods Covenant, and binding him over to answer his Impenitence at the bar of God, and requiring the Church accordingly to avoid him.
M. Because I would ask no more than needs of men that will not grant so much. And I know no just Excommunication but a Ministerial declaring according to God's word, that a man hath made himself uncapable of Church-Communion and of the benefits of Gods Covenant, and binding him over to answer his Impenitence at the barr of God, and requiring the Church accordingly to avoid him.