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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 20: Point XVII. Of Consenting to all the Ornaments of Church and Ministers that were in use…
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.
Chap. XX. Point XVII. Of Consenting to all the Ornaments of Church and Ministers that were in use in the Second year of King Edw. 6.
L. What have you against this?
L. VVHat have you against this?
M. The words are, [That such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof at all times of their Ministration, shall be retained in use as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the Second year of King Edw. 6.] Against this we have these Exceptions. 1. We know not what was then in use, and therefore cannot consent to we know not what. 2. We are told that the Albe, and many other Ornaments were then in use that are since put down, and we must not consent ⟨p. 103⟩to restore them, without more reason than we hear. And the Canon enumerating the Ornaments now, we suppose the addition of all those will Contradict it. 3. We meet with few Conformists that know what was then in use. And we see that all those that Subscribe or Consent to this, yet use them not. And we will not run for Company into a solemn Covenant-Consent, to the use of those things that we see no body use. The second year of King Edw. 6. was the minority of the Reformation, and before we consent to make it our pattern, we must know what it was, and whether no Act of Parliament have since reversed that which then was used?