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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
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. I have heard Learned Men say, That the Assent and Consent is not to be extended to the Damnatory Clauses, but only the Doctrinal Articles.
M. They that can make Laws and Oaths speak or mean what they list, need not stick at any thing. Is not the Damnatory part a part of the Book of Common-Prayer, and contained in it?
L. But they prove thus, that it meaneth no such Consent or Approbation. The Liturgy requireth you to read the Apocrypha, and yet not to believe all things in it to be true; For, say they, divers things in Tobit are evidently false: And so tho' it bind you to use and read Athanasius's Creed, it binds you not to believe all in it to be true.
M. This Cheat is too gross to deceive a School-Boy with. Is Athanasius's Creed a real part of the Common-Prayer Book, contained in it, or not?
M. This Cheat is too gross to deceive a School-Boy with. Is Athanasius's Creed a real part of the Common-Prayer Book, contain'd in it, or not?