Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 482 ] VI. Ex C. Afric. c. 15. That there be no Re~ ordainingor Tranflation of Bi01ops. , VII. No man mufi receive the witnefs ofaLay– man againll: a Clergy-man. VIII. 1 he Second General Council at Nice fet– teth up the Adoration of Images, curling all from Chrift with Anathema that are againfi ir,or doubt of it. ' IX. Even the contrary Council at Con.ftantinople of 338 Bifhops anathematizeth all that do not with a fincere Faith crave the Interceffion of the ·Virgin Mary as the Parent of God and Superior to'every Creature vifible and invifible. And all that confefs not rhat all who from the beginning to this day, before the Law and under the Law; and in the Grace given of God, being Saints, are venerable in the Prefence of God in Soul and 'BODY, and feek not their Interceffions. Yet they conclude with the Cone. Nice 2. That Chriff's Body Glorified u not proper Flefh, Def. 7· X. The faid Second Council at Nice faith [Eve– ry Election of a Biji1op, Prieft or Deacon which umacje by Magiftrates ]hall remain void,by the Canon which . faith [if Plny Bifhop ufe the Secular Magiftrate to ob– tain by them a Church, let him be depofcdand fepara– ted, and all that Communicatewith him] ; ' " ' · · .. Thus our Engliil1 Bi{bops and Parifh Minifiers are depofed, and all their Communicants to be Excommunicated. XI. Ibid. Can. 4· Thofe that for Gain or Affe– Ction of their own 01u t out any 't\1inifiers, or {hut the Temples, forbidding the Divine Minifiry, are ' iliarply condemned ( which would fall on Silen– cing Bi{hops). XII. Can. I 5. Forbiddeth one man to have two Cburches \

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