A27060:82
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.
8. The business will be so odious, chargeable and troublesome, that witnesses will not come in.
9. The Minister by these prosecutions and attendances, will be taken off the rest of his ministerial work.
10. Bishops being but men, will be tempted by this intolerable ⟨p. 19⟩burden, to be weary of the work, and slubber it over, and cast it upon others, and to discountenance the most conscionable Ministers that most trouble them with presentments: which when the people perceive, they will the more insult, and vex us with Appeals: So that the discouragements of the Ministers, and the utter incapacity of the Bishops to perform a quarter of this work, will nullify Discipline, as leaving it impossible, Experience hath told us this too long.
10. Bishops being but men, will be tempted by this intolerable ⟨p. 19⟩burthen, to be weary of the work, and slubber it over, and cast it upon others, and to discountenance the most conscionable Ministers that most trouble them with presentments: which when the people perceive, they wil the more insult, and vex us with Appeals: So that the discouragements of the Ministers, and the utter incapacity of the Bishops to perform a quarter of this work, will nullifie Discipline, as leaving it impossible, Experience hath told us this too long.