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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.
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.
2. The ordinary is not only the Bishop, but also the Chancellour, Officials, Surrogates, Comissaries, Arch-Deacons, and all that are Judges' in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
3. to obey them that are thus de facto set over us, is no less than to obey them in the exercise of that power which is given them as so set over us.