A26965:564
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.
12. Therefore either we consent to pronounce almost all such to be saved (at a time when our words take the deepest impression,) or else more exceptions must be made.
13. Some say that the Excommunicable are included in the Excommunicated; But the Canon and the express words of the Liturgy, and the Churches▪ abhorrence that the Priest shall be Judge, do so notoriously confute this bold assertion, that by such stretches almost any thing may be said or sworn, and it shall not be known by authority, when, or how far any Subject is obliged by Covenants or Oaths.
XVIII. The Liturgy requireth [that such ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof at all times of their Ministration, shall be retained and in use, as were in this Church of England by the authority of Parliament in the 2d. Tear of Ed. 6.
2. The Canon of the same Church expoundeth their meaning cap. 58. Thus [every Minister saying the public prayers or Ministering the Sacraments or other rites of the Church, shall wear a decent and comely Surplice &c.