A27066:39
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
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. Standing up at the Creed and the Antiphons.
1. Standing up at the Creed and the Antiphones.
Mr. Baxter's Scripture-Proof of Infant-Church-membership. Part. II. cap. 6. p. 121.
I Humbly propound (meaning to the Assembly of Divines) that the Custom of standing up at the Creed, may be reduced to its Primitive nature and vigour [i.e. as 'tis now in use in the Church of England; it being then quite out of use.) And in the next Page he reckons this among one of those five plain Duties, which he says must not ⟨p. 20⟩be wiped out, lest the Directory be found more defective than the Common-Prayer-Book.
In his Sacrilegious Desertion of the Ministry Rebuked,] he says, that the Conformists in standing up at the Antiphons, (viz. Gloria Patri, Te Deum, Jubilate, &c.) do better than the Non-conformists in not standing up.