Baxter - BX5202 B291 1679

[23z1 IX. The Noncònformifts that do but affirm any thing in the-Liturgy, Ceremonies, Articles, Go- yernment, &c, to be unlawful, and fuch as they may not fubfcfibe to, are by the Church Laws excommunicate ipfo facto : And all that dare not take the Sacrament kneeling, are to be denved he Communion of the Church; And all that dare not fubmit their Children to be bap- tized by the foredefcribed undertaking of God- fadiers, and to receive the Crefs as a dedicating b ?, of Chrifti.aniry,ruft not have their Children Chrifened ; And all that dare not commit their fï uls ro the Pa/toral Gt.idance of ignorant readers, or other men whom they think by their tnIZ,lfYlrefa , tirfoundnefs, averflefs to a boy l;fe, ftra=.go s to intimate cafes ofconfcience,or notorious n glrge»ce a:dfloth,; or non- refidence, to be unmeet for them to truft themfelves to, in fo great a matter, in which their falvation is fo much con- cerned, and fo dare not take the Sacrament from thch, as their Pastors, all -there are forbidden Communion with any other Parifh Churches by the Canon, and al Minifters forbidden to receive them. And if they dare not fay that they are willi;ig to be co»fir-raed (in the Ergl.Jh mode ) they muff no- where be admitted to communion : And being ercommunic_te, m.uft not be burved according to the Church-Office when they are dead; fi; that they are raft our of the Church, bt. r'o e they Congregate in other Affemblies. X. En this cafe the Nonconforrnitts are not agreed 'hot to do : One pa rr and tht far greaten fray, 1. We will forbear af rming the unlawfulnefs of any of the foretold it pofitions, till- we are çalled to @erk out And b.ecaufe the cafe of rhefe

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