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An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate and the continuation thereof / by a lover of truth and peace.
S.l. : s.n., 1669
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.
Quest. Is the Act of Uniformity, and the Oxford Act, to be strictly and rigorously pressed upon, and executed on all transgressors?
Answ. If it be, then what will become of many Conformists who use other Rites and Ceremonies than what are by Law required? and of them who use other Forms of Prayer then are there prescribed; and of all those Ministers that do not read the Common-Prayer either publicly or privately, morning and evening; and so those Lecturers who do not monthly read their Assent & Consent? &c. And as for the Oxford Act & Oath, I have heard from a very learned person, a Conformist, that the Bishops themselves come within the compass of it, as many as have not assented and consented, &c. as oft as ⟨p. 125⟩they came within five miles of their Sees, or any there Corporation. This I say, not to bring the Bishops within, but to bring others out of the reach of that Act; or rather to incline, if it nay be, our Fathers and Brethren to use their interest with his Majesty and Parliament to remove those Laws which are a Partition-wall betwixt the Conformist & Nonconformist.
Answ. If it be, then what will become of many Conformists who use other Rites and Ceremonies than what are by Law required? and of them who use other Forms of Prayer then are there prescribed; and of all those Ministers that do not reade the Common-Prayer either publickly or privately, morning and evening; and so those Lecturers who do not monthly reade their Assent & Consent? &c. And as for the Oxford Act & Oath, I have heard from a very learned person, a Conformist, that the Bishops themselves come within the compass of it, as many as have not assented and consented, &c. as oft as ⟨p. 125⟩they came within five miles of their Sees, or any ther Corporation. This I say, not to bring the Bishops within, but to bring others out of the reach of that Act; or rather to encline, if it nay be, our Fathers and Brethren to use their interest with his Majesty and Parliament to remove those Laws which are a Partition-wall betwixt the Conformist & Nonconformist.