Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

Concerning the Matter of your Majesty's Concessions, as related to our Proposals. 1. WE humbly renew our Petition to your Majesty, for the effectual Security of those premised Necessaries, which are the Matter of our chiefest Care, and whereunto the Controverted Points subserve: viz. 1. That private Exercises of Piety might be encouraged. 2. That an able, faithful Ministry may be kept up, and the insufficient, negligent, scandalous, and non-resident, cast out. 3. That a credible Profession of Faith and Obedience be pre-required of Communicants. 4. That the Lord's Day be appropriated to H•ly Exercises without unnecessary Divertissements. 2. For Church-Government. In this your Majesty's Declaration, Parish Discipline is not sufficiently granted us. Inferior Synods with their Presidents are passed by; and the Bishop which your Majesty declareth for, is not Episcopus Praeses, but Episcopus Princeps; endued with sole Power both of Ordination and Jurisdiction. For though it be said, That [the Bishop shall do nothing without the Advice of Presbyters] yet their Consent is not made necessary, but he might go contrary to the Counsel of them all. And this Advice is not to be given by the Diocesan Synod, or any chosen Representatives of the Clergy, but by the Dean and Chapter, and so many and such others as •e please to call. In all which there being nothing yielded us, which is sufficient to the desired Accommodation and Union, we humbly prosecute our Petition to your Majesty, that the Primitive Presidency with the respective Synods described by the late Reverend Primate of Ireland, may be the Form of Church-Government established among us: At least in these Three needful Points. 1. That the Pastors of the respective Parishes may be allowed, not only publicly to Preach, but personally to Catechize or otherwise Instruct the several Families, admitting none to the Lord's Table that have not personally owned their Baptismal Covenant by a credible Profession of Faith and Obedience; and to admonish and exhort the Scandalous, in order to their Repentance; to hear the Witnesses and the accused Party, and to appoint fit Times and Places for these things; and to deny such Persons the Communion of the Church in the Holy E• charist, that remain impenitent; or that wilfully refuse to come to their Pastors to be instructed, or to answer such probable Accusations;

Concerning the Matter of your Majesty's Concessions, as related to our Proposals. 1. WE humbly renew our Petition to your Majesty, for the effectual Security of those premised Necessaries, which are the Matter of our chiefest Care, and whereunto the Controverted Points subserve: viz. 1. That private Exercises of Piety might be encouraged. 2. That an able, faithful Ministry may be kept up, and the insufficient, negligent, scandalous, and non-resident, cast out. 3. That a credible Profession of Faith and Obedience be pre-required of Communicants. 4. That the Lord's Day be appropriated to Hly Exercises without unnecessary Divertisements. 2. For Church-Government. In this your Majesty's Declaration, Parish Discipline is not sufficiently granted us. Inferiour Synods with their Presidents are passed by; and the Bishop which your Majesty declareth for, is not Episcopus Praeses, but Episcopus Princeps; indued with sole Power both of Ordination and Iurisdiction. For though it be said, That [the Bishop shall do nothing without the Advice of Presbyters] yet their Consent is not made necessary, but he might go contrary to the Counsel of them all. And this Advice is not to be given by the Diocesan Synod, or any chosen Representatives of the Clergy, but by the Dean and Chapter, and so many and such others as e please to call. In all which there being nothing yielded us, which is sufficient to the desired Accommodation and Union, we humbly prosecute our Petition to your Majesty, that the Primitive Presidency with the respective Synods described by the late Reverend Primate of Ireland, may be the Form of Church-Government established among us: At least in these Three needful Points. 1. That the Pastors of the respective Parishes may be allowed, not only publickly to Preach, but personally to Catechize or otherwise Instruct the several Families, admitting none to the Lord's Table that have not personally owned their Baptismal Covenant by a credible Profession of Faith and Obedience; and to admonish and exhort the Scandalous, in order to their Repentance; to hear the Witnesses and the accused Party, and to appoint fit Times and Places for these things; and to deny such Persons the Communion of the Church in the Holy E charist, that remain impenitent; or that wilfully refuse to come to their Pastors to be instructed, or to answer such probable Accusations;