A27035:675
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
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.
A Council at Soissons about 852. (a Presbyter by the King's Command being Ordained to the Church of Rhemes irregularly) Decree, That they that are made Presbyters without examination by ignorance, or by dissimulation of the Ordainers, when they are known shall be deposed, because the Catholic Church defendeth that which is irreprehensible, &c.
A Council at Soisons about 852. (a Presbyter by the King's Command being Ordained to the Church of Rhemes irregularly) Decree, That they that are made Presbyters without examination by ignorance, or by dissimulation of the Ordainers, when they are known shall be deposed, because the Catholick Church defendeth that which is irreprehensible, &c.
23. An. 855. under Lotharius Rennigius Lugd. and others, at a Council decreed, (because that bad King had by imposing corrupted the Clergy) That because Bishops were set over the Cities that were untried, and almost ignorant of Letters, and unlike the Apostolic prescript, ⟨p. 132⟩script, by which means the Ecclesiastical vigour is lost, they will petition the King that when a Bishop was wanting, the Canonical Election by the Clergy and the People may be permitted, that men of tried knowledge and life, and not illiterate men, blinded by covetousness, may be set Bishops over the Flocks.
23. An. 855. under Lotharius Rennigius Lugd. and others, at a Council decreed, (because that bad King had by imposing corrupted the Clergy) That because Bishops were set over the Cities that were untryed, and almost ignorant of Letters, and unlike the Apostolick prescript, ⟨p. 132⟩script, by which means the Ecclesiastical vigor is lost, they will petition the King that when a Bishop was wanting, the Canonical Election by the Clergy and the People may be permitted, that men of tryed knowledg and life, and not illiterate men, blinded by covetousness, may be set Bishops over the Flocks.