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The
LIEE
of
the
LIS.I
all
Canon4Fal Obedience
)-without
and
betide
any
Legal Indutlion or Admifflon,
may not
be
re-
puted
as
Intrudersand
falf
Shepherds
?
-
xx.
Whether
it
bad
not
been
an excellent
part
of Cbrifian
Perfection, rather io
endure
pafftve
ÿ
lof of
Liberty,
Efate,
and
even
of
Life
it
felffor
the
maintenance and
defence
of
the
yuf
and Legal Rights
invefed in
the
Church, and
the Bifhops
it's
Superintendent
Pa-
fors,
and
the
Liturgy
and Service
of
the
Church, than carnally
for
Self-
interef
and
Endi,
to
comply
and
febmit
even
againf
their knowing
Conf
tenter, to a
violent and
weer
prevail-
ing
power
and
force
in
the
abolifhing
of
Epifcopal
Poveri
and
the
daily
Prayers
and Service
aid
in
the
Church
?
xz.
Whether
all
fucb
Perf000
be
not
guilty
of
Sohifm
and
of
Seandalgiven, which
Coen-
inunicate
and
be
prefent
in
flab
Minifters
Congregations
and
Afniblies,
whether
in
Church
or in
private
Meetings,. to
bear
their
Prayers or Sermons, orreceive
their
Sacraments accord
-
ing
to the now-prefentmode and.
form,moreef)ecialy
in
the
participation
with
them
in
the Sa-
crament
of
the
Eucharift
?
Or bow
far
may
agood
Chriftian
Communicate
with
fuch
with-
out
jilt
Scandal
given
or taken
?
z3.
Whether
it
be
lawful
and
juf
for
any
Orthodox
Mini/ter
or Epifcoparian to
accept
of
any
Benefice
with
Cure
of
Souls, as
the
fate
of
the
Englifh
Church now
fandetb
vfble
and ruling, without
guilt
of
Schifm
by compliance
to their Form
?
14.
Whether
as
the
Condition
of
the prefent Church
of
England
is, The
Minìfers
there-
of
may not legally, and
fo
jell
ifably,
exercifè
and
ufe
againf
the
late
Liturgy
of
the
Church,
there being
nòStatute
Law
prohibiting
the fame
?
And
whether
thofe
that
continue the
Ob-
fervateen
of
the
late
Diretlory
be
not
perturbera
of
the
Peace..
of
the Church
, eeeially Pee
the
limitation
of
trial
by
a
pretended
Legality and
Command
for.
its
obfervance
,
is
expired
and
not reconfirmed.
xi..
Whether the old
7ewifh
Church had not
fit
Forms
of
Prayer
?
whether
St.
John
the
Baptiîl
our
Saviour's
Preecurfor,
and
our
bleed
Saviour bimfelf, taught
not
their
Difciples
fit
-Forms
of
Prayers,
and whether
the
Chrif
ianChurch (elpecially
face
the
time
of
Peace
from
the violence
of
Heatbeni(b Perfecution) had not, nor generally
stied fee
Forms
of
Pray-
er? Arid
whether
the
Minifters
now
ex
tempore
Prayers
in
the
Church,
be
not as
well a
let
Form
of
Prayers to the
Auditors,
whofe
Spirits
are therein
bounded
as
any
fit
Form
of
Prayer,
reefed
in
the Church
?
16.
Whether maya
Cbrifian,
without
Scandal
given,
appear
to
be
a
Godfather
or
God-
mother
-to
a-
Ehiledin
theft.
Newr
Ajmblies,
where the
Minifter
ufeth
he own
Ditates
and
Prayers, and not
of
the ancient
Liturgy,
except she
Words
of
Baptifm,
I
'Baptize
thee
(
A.
B,)
in
the
Name'
Of
the
Father,
-ác.
17. Whether
any Supream
Earthly
Power
or Powers
Spiritual
or Temporal,
joint
or
fa-
pirate,
can
alienate
and convert
tó
fecular
ufès'er imployments any Hordes,
Lands,
Goods,
or
Things
once
devoted, offered and dedicated to God
and bis Çbareb,
without grand
Sacri-
ledge
and
Prophanenefl; although
by
Corruption.
of
Per/ins and Times
they
have
been
either
fuperfitioufy
abated,
or
too
propbanely employed, but
rather
to
reduce
tbemto their
primitive
Ufe
and
Donation?
x8.
Whether the ancient
Falling
Days
of
the Week
and FeFlivats
of
the Church,
fitted
both
by
Provincial
Synods
in
the Tear
y56z.
and
t640.
and
confirmed
by
the then
Regal
Power, and
alfo
by
feveral
Statutes
and
Laws,
ought not by
allperfns-in
Coufcience
to
be
fill
obferved,
until
they
be
abrogated
by
the
like
Powers
again ? or bow
far
the
Liberty
of
Confidence
thereinmay
be
ufed
in
obferving or not obferving
them?
the
like.
for
the ufage
of
the
Crofin
Baptifm, and
the bumble pot-lure
of
Kneeling
at
the
receiving
of
the
Hefei'
Sa-
crament
of
the
Lords
Supper?
xq.
Which way
of
feeurity and
peace
of
Confeience
may a quiet
Cbrifian
order
and
diflrefe
himfelf,
bei
Wife,
Children and Family
in
bis
Duty
and Service towards God,
and
enjoy the
right
aft
and
benefit
of
the Sacraments
and
other holy
Duties,
as
long
as
that part:
of
the'Catbolick
Churchwherein
be
lives
,
is under perfecutian, anet.tbe
vifble
Rulin5
Church therein
is
fain
Schifinetical,
if
not
in
many
particulars Heretical?
April
zoth, e65g
May