[ 243] take it at the fame convenient hours that the Parifh Chùreht,s meet at: Other times being fo inconvenient, as that families cannot obferve them without hurt. And they could not _Preach, and btar in the Pv>'ifh- Churches at once. XXVIII. All this while, though they h:rd the Kings authority for their Afferblies, fume C1r-rgv men ceafed not to accule them of Schifnn; fhewi!g; that it is the want of fomething elfè rather ;ha n the Kings authority on which they gRWTId their accufation. XXIX. Some Nonconformifts have there 17 years fórborn to baptize or adminiíter th< Lords Supper, or to be Paftors of any Churches, but only Preached occafionally where the Parifhes were fo great, that one of ten or twenty had no room in the Church ; and where forte of many years had heard no publick worfhip of God : And they have publifhed to the people that they affembled them not to feparate from the Parifh Churches or their worfhip, but for their meet neceffity, perfwading none to come to hear them, but fuch as cannot come into the Parifh Churches to hear : Yet are they "accufed for drawing men from the Church. XXX. Thefe Minifters in thefe places have been profecuted more feverely than the tell, by imprifonments, fines and guards againft their meetings ; which induced others to Preach in the City where there teemed let's need, becaufe they found quiec:nefs no where elfe, and becaufe force out of the remoter needy Parifhes might come thitherto them. XXXI. Though they have loft all Minifferiat maintenance, and are lyable to pay 201. the heft ermen and 401. the refl,and 201. for the ground R 2 fó
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