A27028:308
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
16. By Canon fourteenth, if any Minister shall diminish any part of the Orders, Rites, Ceremonies, Prayers, &c. in regard of Preaching or ANY OTHER RESPECT, or shall add any thing in matter or form, (e. g. If he let the Parent express the dedication of his Child to God, or lay any charge on any Parent) he breaketh the Church Law, and so far separateth from it.
16. By Canon fourteenth, if any Minister shall diminish any part of the Orders, Rites, Ceremonies, Prayers, &c. inregard of Preaching or ANY OTHER RESPECT, or shall adde any thing in matter or form, (e. g. If he let the Parent express the dedication of his Child to God, or lay any charge on any Parent) he breaketh the Church Law, and so far separateth from it.
17. By Canon fifteenth when twenty or thirty thousand are commanded to come to a Church that cannot receive six thousand, and the Alleys and Pews are wedged so that they cannot all kneel, yet all that kneel not at the Prayers, and all that say not audibly the Confession, Lords Prayer, Creed and Responses, disobey the Laws of the Church, and so far separate from it.
17. By Canon fifteenth when twenty or thirty thousand are commanded to come to a Church that cannot receive six thousand, and the Alleys and Pewes are wedg'd so that they cannot all kneel, yet all that kneel not at the Prayers, and all that say not audibly the Confession, Lords Prayer, Creed and Responses, disobey the Laws of the Church, and so far separate from it.
18. When twenty thousand Persons are commanded to come in more than can, if ten thousand of them (or any number) should come to the Church-yard or Porch, to show that they are not presentable, but would get in if they could, the nineteenth Canon commands to drive them away.