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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 21: Point XVIII. Of giving an Account to the Ordinary of all that we keep from the Sacramen…
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. For many and great Reasons. 1. From the Ordinary. 2. From our Selves and our Ministry. 3. From the People. 4. From the Church. 5. From the Nature of the Matter.
L. I. What have you against it from the Ordinary.
M. I told you before that, 1. Some of the Ordinaries are Lay-Men, sitting in Corners to Decree Excommunications and Absolutions, proper to the Clergy. And we ought not to consent to the guilt of this. 2. Other Ordinaries are single Presbyters that have no Power of the Keys from Christ over their Brethren, and over a multitude of Churches. 3. Other of the Ordinaries are Diocesans over Hundreds of Churches that have no Bishops of their own under these. And we ought not to own any of all these.
L. II. What Reasons have you from your selves?