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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.
4. It was many hundred years before Arch-Bishops had any Governing power over Bishops, or exacted any obedience from them; being not Episcopi Episcoporum (as the Carthage Fathers in Cyprian professed.) But were only such as had the first seats and voices in the Synods.
5. The question therefore is, whether such Oaths, as necessary to a Bishops consecration, be to be Approved and consented to?
XXVI. An Oath of Canonical obedience also is put upon all that are made Priests and Deacons: And Priests at their ordination must make this Covenant, that they [will reverently obey their Ordinary, and other chief Ministers, unto whom is committed the charge and Government over them.]
2. The ordinary is not only the Bishop, but also the Chancellor, Officials, Surrogates, Commissaries, Arch-Deacons, and all that are Judges' in the Ecclesiastical Courts.