A26965:611
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.
XXIX. The Rubric saith that [the Minister who repelleth any from the Sacrament, shall be obliged to give an account of the same to the Ordinary within 14 days after, at the furthest.
XXIX. The Rubrick saith that [the Minister who repelleth any from the Sacrament, shall be obliged to give an account of the same to the Ordinary within 14 daies after, at the furthest.
2. If all that by gross ignorance, Atheism, Infidelity, Sadducism, Heresy, Schism, Drunkenness, Whoredom, Stealing, Malice, &c. are uncapable of the Communion be presented to the Ordinary within 14 days, no charity that is guided by knowledge of the common state of the people, can think, that in London Diocese there would be fewer than many score thousands presented at once. And in other Dioceses many score hundreds at least,
2. If all that by gross ignorance, Atheism, Infidelity, Sadducism, Heresie, Schism, Drunkenness, Whoredom, Stealing, Malice, &c. are uncapable of the Communion be presented to the Ordinary within 14 daies, no charity that is guided by knowledge of the common state of the people, can think, that in London Diocess there would be fewer than many score thousands presented at once. And in other Diocesses many score hundreds at least,
3. Some Ministers dwell a hundred Miles or near from the Bishops. And the Bishops are divers of them so much at London or abroad, as that it cannot be expected that all these must be presented to the Bishop himself, but to the Chancellors court, as is usual.
3. Some Ministers dwell a hundred Miles or neer from the Bishops. And the Bishops are divers of them so much at London or abroad, as that it cannot be expected that all these must be presented to the Bishop himself, but to the Chancellours court, as is usual.