A27050:104
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort…
A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiors, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.A treatise of episcopacy confuting by Scripture, reason, and the churches testimony that sort of diocesan churches, prelacy and government, which casteth out the primitive church-species, episcopacy, ministry and discipline and confoundeth the Christian world by corruption, usurpation, schism and persecution : meditated in the year 1640, when the et cætera oath was imposed : written 1671 and cast by : published 1680 by the importunity of our superiours, who demand the reasons of our nonconformity / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 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.
7. Nor to absolve any that is penitent after Excommunication; But only to read the Lay-Chancellors sentences, sent him in the Bishops name.
7. Nor to absolve any that is penitent after Excommunication; But only to read the Lay-Chancellours sentences, sent him in the Bishops name.
8. He hath no power to forbear giving the Lords Supper to any one how notorious an offender soever, unless he will prosecute him at the Bishops Court, nor then, but for once: So that if he pay his Fees and be Absolved there, though the Minister know him to be never so bad, he must give the Sacrament the next time. And the prosecution is so odious and fruitless that I never knew any do it, except against the Nonconformists.
9. He that seeth never so great signs of Impenitency in any man that is sick, or will but say that he is sick, hath no power to deny him private Absolution and the Sacrament, if he do but say, I Repent.
10. He hath no power to forbear pronouncing of all Traitors, Murderers, Adulterers, Perjured, Atheists, &c. that never profest Repentance, at their Burial, that God hath of his mercy taken to himself the soul of this our dear brother; except the unbaptized, &c. aforesaid.