A26965:567
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. 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.
2. The Canon of the same Church expoundeth their meaning cap. 58. Thus [every Minister saying the publick prayers or Ministring the Sacraments or other rites of the Church, shall wear a decent and comely Surplice &c.
3. We suppose in the 2d. of King Ed. 6. The Cope, Alb and other vestments were in use, which seem forbidden by the Common-Prayer Book in the 5th. and 6th. of Ed. 6.
4. The Conformists agree not of the sense of this Rubric, 1. Whether all these are hereby reduced or not. 2. Whether it forbid all Ministers to officiate without a Surplice, or only Command the use of it, without an implied penalty: But the words, and the forecited Canons show that the Church intended an exclusion of all that will not use it: And we must subscribe to administer in no other form.
4. The Conformists agree not of the sense of this Rubrick, 1. Whether all these are hereby reduced or not. 2. Whether it forbid all Ministers to officiate without a Surplice, or only Command the use of it, without an implyed penalty: But the words, and the forecited Canons shew that the Church intended an exclusion of all that will not use it: And we must subscribe to administer in no other form.