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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 20. Pag. 262. The Church intends not to forbid any such intercourse or Communion to which we stand preobliged by the Law of Nature or any Law of God—Even the King cannot command a wife not to pay her duty to her husband, nor a child to his mother: To these they are bound by God though they die for it.* When (an action of) piety is necessary, and not under choice and Counsel, but under a commandment, the King and the Bishop singly or conjunctly have no power to forbid it. p. 264. In this there is no other Rule of Conscience, but that we first attend to the Laws of God concerning our other duties, and then to the Laws of the King in this.
§. 20. Pag. 262. The Church intends not to forbid any such entercourse or Communion to which we stand preobliged by the Law of Nature or any Law of God—Even the King cannot command a wife not to pay her duty to her husband, nor a child to his mother: To these they are bound by God though they die for it.* When (an action of) piety is necessary, and not under choice and Counsel, but under a commandment, the King and the Bishop singly or conjunctly have no power to forbid it. p. 264. In this there is no other Rule of Conscience, but that we first attend to the Laws of God concerning our other duties, and then to the Laws of the King in this.
- *So a Minister to his office.
§. 21. p. 275. The Lent fast is not a Tradition or Canon Apostolical, proved at large and unanswerably, to pag. 285. and again after.
§. 22. P. 285. The Authority of a General Council in matters of Government and Discipline, is no greater, no more obligatory, than the authority of a provincial Council to those that are under it.—It is