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A search for the English schismatic by the case and characters I. of the…A search for the English schismatick by the case and characters I. of the…
A search for the English schismatic by the case and characters I. of the diocesan canoneers, II. of the present mere nonconformists : not as an accusation of the former, but a necessary defence of the later, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them / by Richard Baxter ...A search for the English schismatick by the case and characters I. of the diocesan canoneers, II. of the present meer nonconformists : not as an accusation of the former, but a necessary defence of the later, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
Chapter 2: The Case of the Diocesan-Canoneers, or Zealots for Imposition of Conformity.
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Usurpers of Power, (whereby we do not mean them that by violence have aspired to places of highest authority, but them that use more authority than ever they did receive in form and manner above mentioned) such Usurpers thereof as in the exercise of their power, do more than they have been authorized to do, cannot in conscience bind any to obedience]: Thus Hooker. Hollingshead (a Minister) maketh Parliaments so mighty, as to take down the greatest Kings. Bishop Jewel defendeth the defensive arms of the French Protestants, as Bilson and others do.
On the other side some held, that [it is unlawful on any pretence what soever to take Arms against the King, or any Commissioned by him in pursuance of that Commission.] And thus the Clergy were then divided about such things, which prognosticated much that followed.
20. The Laity, Lords and Commons were divided after these two Parties: And the Parliaments still adhered to the (then) major part against Laud's Party, and insisted on Grievances, viz. 1. Increase and favour of Popery. 2. Arminianism. 3. About their Property and Liberty, Taxing and Imprisoning, &c. as Rushworth and Heylin show at large of divers Parliaments.
20. The Laity, Lords and Commons were divided after these two Parties: And the Parliaments still adhered to the (then) major part against Laud's Party, and insisted on Grievances, viz. 1. Increase and favour of Popery. 2. Arminianism. 3. About their Property and Liberty, Taxing and Imprisoning, &c. as Rushworth and Heylin shew at large of divers Parliaments.