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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 24: Point XXI. Of Publishing Excommunications according to the Fifth Canon, about the Artic…
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L. I hope you that agree with the Church in Doctrine, have nothing against Publishing such an Excommunication.
M. I Subscribe to the Doctrinal Articles as true, because I judge of them by what I take to be the Author's meaning: But 1. The words in the obvious sense, are divers of them liable to Exceptions. 2. And some of them about Traditions, Ceremonies, &c. are of small moment and dubious. 3. And every word that is true, is not an Article of the Creed, nor necessary to Church Communion; so that all Men must be cast out of the Church that dissent from it. And this Excommunication extends to Lay-Men (who are not bound to know as much as Ministers.
M. I Subscribe to the Doctrinal Articles as true, because I judge of them by what I take to be the Author's meaning: But 1. The words in the obvious sence, are divers of them liable to Exceptions. 2. And some of them about Traditions, Ceremonies, &c. are of small moment and dubious. 3. And every word that is true, is not an Article of the Creed, nor necessary to Church Communion; so that all Men must be cast out of the Church that dissent from it. And this Excommunication extends to Lay-Men (who are not bound to know as much as Ministers.
L. What is therein the Articles that any good Man can scruple?