A26965:606
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. But it is the foresaid lay Chancellors, who usually know nothing of them but by reports, that excommunicate and absolve them. And the Parish-Minister must (as a crier readeth a proclamation or sentence of a Judge) openly read these excommunications and absolutions.
2. But it is the foresaid lay Chancellours, who usually know nothing of them but by reports, that excommunicate and absolve them. And the Parish-Minister must (as a cryer readeth a proclamation or sentence of a Judge) openly read these excommunications and absolutions.
3. These excommunications must pass according to the Canons, against all that shall affirm that [there is any thing in the book of Common-Prayer repugnant to the Scripture or any of the 39 Articles erroneous, or any of the Rites and Ceremonies such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe to, or that the Government by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-Deacons and the rest that bear Office in the Church of England, is repugnant to the word of God, or that any thing in the form and manner of making & consecrating Bishops, Priests or Deacons is repugnant to the word of God, &c.]
3. These excommunications must pass according to the Canons, against all that shall affirm that [there is any thing in the book of Common-Prayer r•pugnant to the Scripture or any of the 39 Articles •rroneous, or any of the Rites and Ceremonies such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe to, or that the Government by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Arch-Deacons and the rest that bear Office in the Church of England, is repugnant to the word of God, or that any thing in the form and manner of making & consecrating Bishops, Priests or Deacons is repugnant to the word of God, &c.]