A69535:45
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
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.
2. That none may Baptise, or be Baptised without the transient Image of the Cross, which hath at least the semblance of a Sacrament of humane institution, being used as an engaging sign in our first and solemn Covenanting with Christ, and the Duties whereunto we are really obliged by Baptism, being more expressly affixed to that Aery sign than to the holy Sacrament.
2. That none may Baptise, or be Baptised without the transient Image of the Cross, which hath at least the semblance of a Sacrament of humane institution, being used as an engaging sign in our first and solemn Covenanting with Christ, and the Duties whereunto we are really obliged by Baptism, being more expresly affixed to that Aery fign than to the holy Sacrament.
3. That none may receive the Lords Supper that dares not kneel in the act of receiving, but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion, although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles; but (at least on the Lords days) is country to the practice of the Catholic Church for many hundred years after, and ⟨p. 9⟩forbid by the most venerable Councila that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions are made yet more grievous by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Cannon exacts, and by the heavy punishments, upon the non observance of them, which the Act for uniformity inflicts.
3. That none may receive the Lords Supper that dares not kneel in the act of receiving, but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion, although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles; but (at least on the Lords daies) is contrry to the practice of the Catholick Church for many hundred years after, and ⟨p. 9⟩forbid by the most venerable Councila that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions are made yet more grievous by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Cannon exacts, and by the heavy punishments, upon the non observance of them, which the Act for uniformity inflicts.