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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
THE SAMARITAN. › Section 14: SECT. Ult.THE SAMARITAN. › Section 14: SECT. Ʋlt.
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.
There are Two sorts of Nonconformists we know; The One who do allow of a Liturgy, and our Parochial Churches, and these may be all Comprehended upon very reasonable condescen••••s: The Other who do not allow of either, and these must be Indulged, or destroyed. It is two Bills therefore, or these two things in one Bill, which are necessary to the design of Accommodation.
There are Two sorts of Nonconformists we know; The One who do allow of a Liturgy, and our Parochial Churches, and these may be all C••prehended upon very reasonable condescen••••s: The Other who do not allow of either, and these must be Indulged, or destroyed. It is two Bills therefore, or these two things in one Bill, which are necessary to the designe of Accomodation.
In that Parliament, the One of these Bills (for there was Two of them, as the Gentleman before hath told us) the Bill for Indulgence, was carefully attended by some concerned in it, and was therefore brought to Perfection: The Other Bill, that for Comprehension, was looked after very sorrily; and if it had Passed as it was Drawn up, would have brought in, no Body.
For instance, The Declaration of Assent and Consent to the Book of Common-Prayer, required in the Act of Uniformity, was taken away wholly in this Bill, but the Subscription required in the same Act, was taken away only in the latter part: And when in the former part there are these words, And I will Conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by Law Established, (which are really equivalent with the Declaration of Assent and Consent to the Use of the Book, and it is to no more, than to the Use of it, the Declaration is required to be made, by the Act), it follows, that to take away One of these injunctions and not the Other, could be of no Signification. Upon notice hereof therefore given to some Members of the House, it was moved at the Committee to take away the whole Subscription, as well as the Declaration; and it being carried in the Affirmative, the Bill as it is here presented, hath that Amendment.