A26965:342
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.
6. The Law or Canon forbiddeth it to no man in England, to desert men, sobeit they will but remove their dwelling into another Parish. Which is an extrinsic Circumstance of humane order.
6. The Law or Canon forbiddeth it to no man in England, to desert men, sobeit they will but remove their dwelling into another Parish. Which is an extrinsick Circumstance of humane order.
7. Even Pope Nicolas in his Decretals, saith, that [Priests that commit fornication, cannot have the honour of Priesthood. Yea [Let no man hear Mass of a Priest whom he certainly knoweth to have a Concubine or woman introduced] and we hope we may be herein as clean as Papists. Yea of Popes he saith [He that by money, or the favour of men, or Popular, or Military tumults, is intruded into the Apostolical seat, without the Concordant and Canonical Election of the Cardinals, and the following religious Clergy, let him not be taken for a Pope or Apostolical, but Apostatical] Caran. 2. p. 393. 395.
7. Even Pope Nicolas in his Decretals, saith, that [Priests that commit fornication, cannot have the honour of Priesthood. Yea [Let no man hear Mass of a Priest whom he certainly knoweth to have a Concubine or woman introduced] and we hope we may be herein as clean as Papists. Yea of Popes he saith [He that by money, or the favour of men, or Popular, or Military tumults, is intruded into the Apostolical seat, without the Concordant and Canonical Election of the Cardinals, and the following religious Clergie, let him not be taken for a Pope or Apostolical, but Apostatical] Caran. 2. p. 393. 395.
8. Gildas saith of the British wicked Priests, that they were Traitors and not Ministers of Christ, and that he was not Eximius Christianus, that would call them Ministers.