A26965:539
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.
XIV. The Liturgy requireth that the Priest deliver the Communion to the people into their hands, All meekly kneeling.
2. The 27th. Canon saith, [No Minister shall wittingly administer the same to any, but to such as kneel under pain of suspension.
3. The Conformists differ among themselves about the sense of the Liturgy herein, viz. whether [All kneeling] include a prohibition to deliver it to any that kneel not: some say No: that ⟨p. 183⟩it only bids them give it to such as kneel, but not to deny it others, though the Canon do. Others say, yea that it requireth us to give it to no others. Their reasons are 1. Because else the precept signified nothing, if men were after it left at liberty. 2. Because [All] plainly excludeth others. 3. Because the Canon being the decrees of the same Church, expoundeth the Liturgy; and it is absurd to say that their Rubric leaveth the Minister at Liberty to do that same thing for which the Canon suspendeth him. 4. Because we must also subscribe that we will use no other form of administration, but that of the Liturgy; which Reasons we judge to be cogent.
3. The Conformists differ among themselves about the sense of the Liturgy herein, viz. whether [All kneeling] include a prohibition to deliver it to any that kneel not: some say No: that ⟨p. 183⟩it only bids them give it to such as kneel, but not to deny it others, though the Canon do. Others say, yea that it requireth us to give it to no others. Their reasons are 1. Because else the precept signified nothing, if men were after it left at liberty. 2. Because [All] plainly excludeth others. 3. Because the Canon being the decrees of the same Church, expoundeth the Liturgy; and it is absurd to say that their Rubrick leaveth the Minister at Liberty to do that same thing for which the Canon suspendeth him. 4. Because we must also subscribe that we will use no other form of administration, but that of the Liturgy; which Reasons we judge to be cogent.