A26965:449
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.
2. By the Canon and Rubric, no one of these dissenters must be admitted to the holy Communion, Can. 27. Saith [No Minister when he celebrateth the Communion shall wittingly administer the same to any, but to such as kneel, under pain of suspension▪] And the Ministers Covenant to use no form of administering the Sacraments but according to the Liturgy.
2. By the Canon and Rubrick, no one of these dissenters must be admitted to the holy Communion, Can. 27. Saith [No Minister when he celebrateth the Communion shall wittingly administer the same to any, but to such as kneel, under pain of suspension▪] And the Ministers Covenant to use no form of administring the Sacraments but according to the Liturgie.
V. The Rubric after Confirmation saith [There shall none be admitted to the holy Communion, till such time as he be confirmed, or be Ready and Desirous to be confirmed. So that desire of Confirmation in the English way, is made a necessary Condition of Communion.
V. The Rubrick after Confirmation saith [There shall none be admitted to the holy Communion, till such time as he be confirmed, or be Ready and Desirous to be confirmed. So that desire of Confirmation in the English way, is made a necessary Condition of Communion.
2. The public owning of the Baptismal Covenant, is that which the Nonconformists are so far from being against, that they take it with a serious Confirmation thereupon to be the meet way of transition from the Infant state of Church-membership, into that of the Adult: and the most Congruous means of uniting dissenters about Church discipline, and of preventing Anabaptistry that can be found out. But many sober Christians are unsatisfied with the English