Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

I t ( I 12 j 'firme.d, who .feeth not that the greatefi benefit 'of the Reconciliation mufr have redounded to ' this Church, to the fGng and People. His Ma– ' jefl:y's Security -provided Jor by the Oaths of ' Supremacy and Allegiance, fo far as it con- ' cerned his Temporal (b) And Men taught 'p (h) 1h B'fL to be Perjured, by taking ower' e ltuOpS in Foreign Ecclefiaitical ' of England to be Inde– 'Power. ' pendent on the Pope of ( i) And yet Obey ·his : Rome. (~)The Clergy to Councils Canons. be permitted the ufe of ·. 'Marriage, the People to 'receive the Communion in both Kinds, and all . 'Divine Offices officiated in the Engli01 Tongue; ' no Innovation made in Doctrine , but only in 'qualifying fome Expreffions,and difcharging fome 'Outlandi!h Gloifes that were .put .upon them : · ' And feeing this, what Man could be fo void of 'Charity, {o tmcompaffionate of the Miferies and ' Di!lraetions of Chrifiendom, as not to wi{h .' from the very bottom of his Soul that the Re- ' conciliation had proceeded on fo good terms ; ' as n9t to. magnifie the·Men to fucceeding Ages, ' who were the lnfirument Authors of fo great ~ , ,, ,_.., . . ' a Blefiif1g. ( kJ So fali (.)~hnft hathgtven us a 'Dr. Heylin who was the fuffictent Law for the Go- , 1\ l b.'{} ' , . I . vernment of the Church ·. - .nrc 1. 1 10ps ntimate elfe, faith Ger[on, he~ wer~ ' and Agent• .not a perfect Lawgiver: '".M:uft·we be beholden to t he Pope for leavingus a little of that \~ hich Chrifl gave us? Who gave him Power to take any of it from us? Would our Conciliators havemagnified theMen . that for the Peace of England would have agreed with Crom- . weU to allow.the King the I.fle of Wigbt~ or WJles ) Or _to havemadea taw that everyHighway-Robbedhall returnone· · ha:lf to the Owner? And withwhat Conkience could theSub- . jeers of Chrifi have obeye4 all the ~eft of theUfurpers finful Canons~ · · - • ..dr~hbifhop,

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