[ii z] And that General Councils, and all Men are fallible : And fire they are very near to Infallibility , who are fo Infallible about every Rite andCeremony, that they dare bind all the Land toy ju- flifie, or not blame them , on pain of ipfo facto Excommuni- cation. z. Yet Grotills, and Bithop Tayhr, that juftifie fome Lying, are Men that deferve Prai.e , with them (and in truth) And Oh ! how many Thoufands live quietly in their Communion, who err in greater Matters than a Ceremony ? 3. And judge by what I have Paid of the Symbolical Croffing in Baptifm, Godfathers, &c. whether it be a wicked Errour de- ferving Excommunicationand Ruine, to charge any one of their Rites withSin. 4. Was it not enough to caft us out of Miniíiry and Mainte- nance for blaming a Ceremony, but theymuft caft us out of the Church ? what is,Pharifaical if thisbe not ? Chap. XXV. Point XXIII. Of 13 udlii7ing the &zent,h Ca. nons Excorrtmunications. M. PTIHeSeventh Canon is [" Whofoever (hall hereafter af- 1. `` firm that the Government of the Church of England, "under His=Majefty, by Arch- bithops , BiTops , Deans , Arch- " deacons, and THE REST THAT BEAR OFFICE in the " fame, is Antichriftian, or repugnant to the Word of God; Let " him be Excommunicate ipfo fado, and fo.continue till he repent '" and publickly revoke fuch his wicked Errórs. L..ZíiarkJere that [And] connexeth all theft Offices, it is not .[OR] disjnnë ively : 5o thatyoufall not under this Canon if you con- demn every, Church Office fave one, ifyou condemnnot all. M. That's a weer violent un,ufl expofition. The Government is the thing named as confining ofmany Offices, as a Bodyof ma- ny Members, or a Chain of many Links ; as we fay, Bonum e, ti' ex Caufas integris. And he that wounds any oneMember, wounds theMan ; and he that breaketh one Link, breaketh the Chain: And he that accufeth any one part of the Government, accufeth the Government thereby And there is no doubt in the World but they fo intended that made this Canon. L, An i. what heveyou again;your Obedience to this. ìç You
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