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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
and to continue such Exclusion of them till they have made a credible Profession of Repentance, and then to receive them again to the Communion of the Church; provided there be place for due Appeals to Superior Power]. All this we beseech your Majesty to express under your Fifth Concession, because it is to us of very great weight, and the Rubric is unsatisfactory to which we are referred. 2. That all the Pastors of each Rural Deaneries, having a stated President chosen by themselves (if your Majesty please to grant them that liberty) may meet once a Month, and may receive Presentments of all such Persons as notwithstanding ⟨p. 270⟩Suspension from Communion of the Church, continue impenitent or unreformed, and having further admonished them, may proceed to the Sentence of Solemn Excommunication, if after due patience they cannot prevail. And may receive the Appeals of those that conceive themselves injuriously Suspended, and may decide the Cause.] Or if this cannot be attained, at least [that the Pastors of each Rural Deanery with their President, may have power to meet Monthly, and receive all such Presentments and Appeals, and judge whether they be fit to be transmitted to the Diocesan or not: and to call before them and admonish the Offenders so presented]. Yet if Presentments against Magistrates and Ministers be reserved only to the Diocesan Synod, and their Appeals immediately there put in, we shall therein submit to your Majesty's pleasure. 3. That a Diocesan Synod, consisting of the Delegates of the several Rural Synods, be called as often as need requireth: and that without the Consent of the major part of them, the Diocesan may not Ordain, or Exercise any Spiritual Censures on any of the Ministers: nor Excommunicate any of the People but by consent of the Synod, or of the Pastors of the particular Parishes where they had Communion. And that not only Chancellors, but also Arch-deacons, Commissaries, and Officials as such, may pass no Censures, purely Spiritual. But for the Exercise of Civil Government coercively by Mulcts or Corporal Penalties by Power derived from your Majesty, as Supreme over Persons, and in things Ecclesiastical, we presume not at all to interpose: but shall submit to any that act by your Majesty's Commission.
and to continue such Exclusion of them till they have made a credible Profession of Repentance, and then to receive them again to the Communion of the Church; provided there be place for due Appeals to Superiour Power]. All this we beseech your Majesty to express under your Fifth Concession, because it is to us of very great weight, and the Rubrick is unsatisfactory to which we are referred. 2. That all the Pastors of each Rural Deaneries, having a stated President chosen by themselves (if your Majesty please to grant them that liberty) may meet once a Month, and may receive Presentments of all such Persons as notwithstaning