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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 36: Point XXXIII. Of the Excommunication of the three last Canons.
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.
L. What is the 140th Canon?
M. Whosoever shall affirm, that no manner of Person, either of the Clergy or Laity, not being then particularly assembled in the said sacred Synod, are to be subject to t•e Decrees thereof in Causes Ecclesiastical (made and ratified by the King's Majesty's Supreme Authority) as not having given their Voice to them, Let him be Excommunicated, and not restored, &c. Here craftily in a Parenthesis, they put in the King's Authority, and if they mean only his Obligation on us, no one of us denieth it: But because their disputing Doctors take that but as ⟨p. 125⟩an Accident, we may say, that the Papists themselves are oft put to say, that General Councils bind not the absent, till they receive them; And the French long received not the Council of Trent, nor many Churches other Councils.
M. Whosoever shall affirm, that no manner of Person, either of the Clergy or Laity, not being then particularly assembled in the said sacred Synod, are to be subject to t•e Decrees thereof in Causes Ecclesiastical (made and ratifyed by the King's Majesty's Supream Authority) as not having given their Voice to them, Let him be Excommunicated, and not restored, &c. Here craftily in a Parenthesis, they put in the King's Authority, and if they mean only his Obligation on us, no one of us denieth it: But because their disputing Doctors take that but as ⟨p. 125⟩an Accident, we may say, that the Papists themselves are oft put to say, that General Councils bind not the absent, till they receive them; And the French long received not the Council of Trent, nor many Churches other Councils.