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Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated,…
Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministry rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsel to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...Sacrilegious desertion of the holy ministery rebuked, and tolerated preaching of the gospel vindicated, against the reasonings of a confident questionist, in a book called Toleration not abused; with counsil to the nonconformists, and petition to the pious conformists / by one that is consecrated to the sacred ministry, and is resolved not to be a deserter of it ...
London : s.n., 1672
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.
1. I know that the King is the Civil-Head or Governor of it. But it is a Constitutive Ecclesiastical Head that must denominate it, as an essential part.
1. I know that the King is the Civil-Head or Governour of it. But it is a Constitutive Ecclesiastical Head that must denominate it, as an essential part.
2. I take it for granted he speaks of a Church organized in a proper political sense, as constituted of a Pars regens, and a Pars subdita; and not as an ungoverned Community.
3. I take it for granted that we have two Archbishops, and they tell me, that one is not under the Government of the other. And if that be true, we may have a Church of Canterbury, and a Church of York, but no one Church of England as denominated from one of them as Head.
4. I take it for granted that the Convocation is not the Constitutive-Head, 1. Because it is so seldom in being, that then we should seldom have a Church of England: For the Essence ceaseth with the essential part. 2. And the Canon thundereth against them that deny the Convocation to be the Representative-Church of England. If it mean of the whole Church, Pastors and People, then the People rule, and make Canons by them (as the Separatists hold:) And it is the Head of the Church only that we enquire after. If they mean the Clergy, then the Representative-Church or Head must be somewhat distinct from the Real represented. If it be the whole Clergy that is the Real Represented-Church or Head,