A27060:75
Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England…
Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England humbly presented to His Majesty by the Reverend ministers of the Presbyterian persuasion.Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England humbly presented to His Majesty by the Reverend ministers of the Presbyterian perswasion.
London : s.n., 1661
Part 2 › The Reasons why we insist on the second Proposal, are these:
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.
1. How many hundred Churches are in a Diocese.
1. How many hundred Churches are in a Diocess.
2. How many thousand persons are in many Parishes; and of those, what a number are obstinate in wilful gross ignorance or scandal, refusing to be instructed or admonished by their Pastors.
3. How long, and earnestly, and tenderly, sinners must be dealt with, before they are cut off by Solemn Excommunication.
4. How unsatisfactory it must be to the conscience of a Bishop or Synod, to cut off a man as impenitent, upon the bare report of a Minister, before they have upon full admonition proved him impenitent themselves, especially when too many Ministers are (to say nothing of a passion that may cause partial accusation) unable so to manage a reproof and exhortation, as is necessary to work on the consciences of the People, and to convict Resisters of flat Impenitency.