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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 51
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 the Canon 26. saith [No Minister shall in any wise admit to the receiving of the holy Communion any of his Cure or flock, which be openly known to live in sin notorious without repentance; Besides what the Rubric saith to that purpose.
And the Canon 26. saith [No Minister shall in any wise admit to the receiving of the holy Communion any of his Cure or flock, which be openly known to live in sin notorious without repentance; Besides what the Rubrick saith to that purpose.
And now (though I think this one of the greatest sores which you have touched) yet judge whether even the Laws and Canons concede no Power to the Ministers.
3. But if they did not, the Power of Office is one thing, and the Liberty of exercising it is another: We have Power from Christ to preach: and if we be silenced and our liberty restrained by men, that proveth us not to be ⟨p. 130⟩no true Ministers. If you mean that no Church is to be communicated with where the Pastor is hindered by men from the full discharge of his Office, you mistake, and can never prove it.