A26965:328
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
LXVI. 20. If those that live in a Parish where the Incumbent by utter Insufficiency, Heresy, Usurpation, Malignity or Wickedness, is such as men may not lawfully own, or commit the Pastoral Conduct and care of their souls to, shall desire the Pastoral care of the next Parish-Minister, and communion in that Parish-Church, and may not be admitted, but all other Parish-Ministers are by Canon commanded to refuse them, and to turn them home to their own Parish-Priests and Churches, so that they must either commit their souls to such uncapable persons, and own them as Christ's Ministers, or have none at all, we dare not charge those persons with Schism, if they commit the care of their souls to worthy ordained men, though not allowed but prohibited by the Magistrate: For the reasons before given. Yea if they know that Church-Laws forbid all other Parish-Priests to receive them, we see not that they are first bound to offer themselves to such as profess obedience to those Laws.
LXVI. 20. If those that live in a Parish where the Incumbent by utter Insufficiency, Heresie, Usurpation, Malignity or Wickedness, is such as men may not lawfully own, or commit the Pastoral Conduct and care of their souls to, shall desire the Pastoral care of the next Parish-Minister, and communion in that Parish-Church, and may not be admitted, but all other Parish-Ministers are by Canon commanded to refuse them, and to turn them home to their own Parish-Priests and Churches, so that they must either commit their souls to such uncapable persons, and own them as Christ's Ministers, or have none at all, we dare not charge those persons with Schism, if they commit the care of their souls to worthy ordained men, though not allowed but prohibited by the Magistrate: For the reasons before given. Yea if they know that Church-Laws forbid all other Parish-Priests to receive them, we see not that they are first bound to offer themselves to such as profess obedience to those Laws.
Obj. 1. But some take a mere Reader for uncapable that cannot preach, or one that cannot pray without Book, or a young man that is not able to resolve doubts, or cases of conscience: but our Canon 57. saith, that the Sacraments are equally effectual, whether they be administered by a Preacher or no Preacher.