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§. 18. Yea if every integral part of the Pastors power and the peoples duty be put into such Promises or Contracts, and the people required to profess their Consent, as a necessary condition of their Communion, it is sinful tyranny, contrary to Gods Law and common reason and the constant practice of the Primitive Church. Christ himself requireth unto Baptism no other Consent as necessary, save to the essentials of Religion. A thousand Integrals may be unknown to the Baptized, and are so to most Christians: It is our duty never to think, speak or do amiss; But Christ maketh not such duty necessary to our Baptism, Christianity or Church Communion. It is the duty of every member of a single Church, to hear, believe and obey the Pastor in many things where the best may fail. To excommunicate a man therefore for not subscribing or professing assent to some unnecessary doubtful form, for not being convinced by a Lay-Chancellors sayings in a doubted case, or for not paying the Court Fees, or for not appearing the day that one is summoned to appear at the Chancellors Court, and such like, are but tyrannical Schismatical acts.

§. 18. Yea if every integral part of the Pastors power and the peoples duty be put into such Promises or Contracts, and the people required to profess their Consent, as a necessary condition of their Communion, it is sinful tyranny, contrary to Gods Law and common reason and the constant practice of the Primitive Church. Christ himself requireth unto Baptism no other Consent as necessary, save to the essentials of Religion. A thousand Integrals may be unknown to the Baptized, and are so to most Christians: It is our duty never to think, speak or do amiss; But Christ maketh not such duty necessary to our Baptism, Christianity or Church Communion. It is the duty of every member of a single Church, to hear, believe and obey the Pastor in many things where the best may fail. To excommunicate a man therefore for not subscribing or professing assent to some unnecessary doubtful form, for not being convinced by a Lay-Chancellours sayings in a doubted case, or for not paying the Court Fees, or for not appearing the day that one is summoned to appear at the Chancellours Court, and such like, are but tyrannical Schismatical acts.

The King himself is satisfied with the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and doth not require all the subjects, no nor the wisest Lawyers or Judges, to swear, subscribe or profess, that they assent and consent to all the Laws of the land.