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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.
§ 328. 3. And as you see what the Discipline is that is to be Exercised, so the Number of Persons on whom it is to be exercised, may be gathered from what is said in the beginning: where is showed, 1. How many hundred Parishes are in a Diocese. 2. How many hundred or thousand Souls in a Parish: (unless the very smallest). 3. And how many Heretics, Atheists, Papists, Infidels, or Swearers, Cursers, Railers, Drunkards, Fornicators, and other scandalous Sinners there are proportionably in most Parishes, I leave to the judgment of every faithful Pastor that ever tried it by a particular knowledge of his Flock.
§ 328. 3. And as you see what the Discipline is that is to be Exercised, so the Number of Persons on whom it is to be exercised, may be gathered from what is said in the beginning: where is shewed, 1. How many hundred Parishes are in a Diocess. 2. How many hundred or thousand Souls in a Parish: (unless the very smallest). 3. And how many Hereticks, Atheists, Papists, Infidels, or Swearers, Cursers, Railers, Drunkards, Fornicators, and other scandalous Sinners there are proportionably in most Parishes, I leave to the judgment of every faithful Pastor that ever tried it by a particular knowledge of his Flock.
§ 329. 4. And lastly, who they be that are to Exercise all this Discipline, I have showed before; even one Court or Consistory in a whole Diocese, with the inconsiderable subserviency of the Arch-Deacon's Court: (For the Rural Deans do nothing in it, and are themselves scarce known: and the Pastor and Churchwardens do nothing but present Men to the Courts, and execute part of their Sentences.)
§ 329. 4. And lastly, who they be that are to Exercise all this Discipline, I have shewed before; even one Court or Consistory in a whole Diocess, with the inconsiderable subserviency of the Arch-Deacon's Court: (For the Rural Deans do nothing in it, and are themselves scarce known: and the Pastor and Churchwardens do nothing but present Men to the Courts, and execute part of their Sentences.)