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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
Chapter 6: II. Of the Covenant and Oath of Canonical Obedience to our Ordinary or Bishop.
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. I. You may gather it from the foregoing enumeration of the Canonical Impositions: Many things of a heinouser nature than Liturgies, Ceremonies or things Indifferent. 1. We dare not obey an Order for Excommunication according to the 4th. Canon, against any man that affirmeth that the Book of Common-Prayer containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures. Judge that by the proof that I shall anon give. 2. The same I say of the Excommunication in Can. 5, 6, 7, 8. and many others, which are after to be particularly mentioned. 3. And there are many things in the Canons which we dare not practice, and therefore dare not swear Canonical Obedience.
M. I. You may gather it from the foregoing enumeration of the Canonical Impositions: Many things of a heinouser nature than Liturgies, Ceremonies or things Indifferent. 1. We dare not obey an Order for Excommunication according to the 4th. Canon, against any man that affirmeth that the Book of Cammon-Prayer containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures. Judge that by the proof that I shall anon give. 2. The same I say of the Excommunication in Can. 5, 6, 7, 8. and many others, which are after to be particularly mentioned. 3. And there are many things in the Canons which we dare not practice, and therefore dare not swear Canonical Obedience.
L. That Oath doth not oblige you to approve of all that is in the Canons, no more than a Justices Oath to execute the Laws doth bind him to approve of, or execute every Law.
L. That Oath doth not oblige you to approve of all that is in the Canons, no more than a Iustices Oath to execute the Laws doth bind him to approve of, or execute every Law.
M. We would not be guilty of an over rigorous Exposition: But had it been in the days of Queen Mary, when the Six Articles, and other Laws for Murdering Innocents were on foot, and were actually expounded by Execution, I would not have been one of the Justices that should have sworn to execute them. Though a Justice be not bound to approve every Law, he is bound in the main to execute them in his place; And if he know that the Imposers of his Oath did mean, that he should in a special manner execute e. g. the Laws against Protestants, he should not take that Oath contrary to their sense. Our Canons make these things forementioned their principal part, as you may see by putting