3 4 The LIE E of tine Part III. on the other part, becaufe therein it was defrred, that till the Lang was fatisfaao- rily reformed, we fhould notbe conftrained to read it, braonly fometímes the grea- oc p.e't cif it : Which words I offered my felt, hell elfe the whole should have been tau trate ; and becaufe the very words of the Scripture (the Pfaims, Sentences, Hymns, Chapters, Epiftles, Gofpels, CT e.) are the fargr' ter part of the Liturgy ; fo that by this we fhould not have been forced to life any more, or any thing fmu- pled. 6 71. Before we concluded any thing, itwas degred, that feeing the Earl of Man- ñnfter, Lord Chamberlain, had been our clofelt Friend, we should not concludewith- ot.t his notice : And fo at a Meeting at hisHoule, thefe Two more Articles, or Pro - pofils, were agreed to be added : Ytz. " Ihriereaa the Sentence ofExcommunicationmay be paled upon very light Occafions, it is humbly defired, that no Minrfter [ball be co.spelted to pronounce fach [entente agamft " lit confcience,but that fome other be thereunto appointed by the Buhop, or the Court. " II: That no perfon(hall be puntedfor not repairing tohis own Par/h-church,whogoeth "to any other Par-ifll-church or Chappel within the Dioccfs. (For by the Bilhop'sDo Brine it is the Diocefan Church that isthe lowelt Political Church, and the Parilhes are but parts of a Church: For there is no Bithopbelow the Diocefan. Thereforewego not fromour own Church, if wego notout of the Dio- cefs.) § -5. When thefe.Propofals were offhredto Dr. Wilkins, and the Reafons of them: i. He would not confentto the claufe in the firstPropof. [Provided that thole who de- fire it, have leave to give in their ProfeJon, that they renounce not their Ordination, &c.] Where was our greateft flop and difagreement. z: H e would not have had firbfcription to the Scriptures put in, becaufe the fame is in the Articles to which we fubfcribe ; I anfwer'd , that we fubfcribed to the Articles becaufe they were materially contained in the Scripture, and gat. to the Scriptures becaufe they were not in the Articles, I thought it needful for Order fake, and for the right defcriptibnof our Religion, that we fubfcribeto tl Scriptures fielt : And to this at hart he contented. lie refnfed the laft part of the fifth for Appealsto Civil Courts, Payingthere ytgs`away of Appeals already, and the other would not be endured. 9`R í Ile two next (the6th and7th) he was not forward to, but at tall agreed ení, leaving out the Claufe in the6th forRegiftring Names. 'o 5 The two ball added Articles alfo were excepted againft. But in the end ifìvás agreed (as they faid, by the the Lord keeper's Confcnt) that Sir Matthew Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer fhould draw up what we agreed on Into the form of an Aft to be offered to the Parliament. And therefore Dr. Frain,' and I wereto bring our Papers to him, and to advife farther with him, for the w-ordingof it, becaufe of his eminent Wifdom andSincerity. ^6. Accordingly we went to him, and on Confultationwith him, our pro - -gilds 1Kft accepted, with the alterations following. Inftead of the Liberty to declare the validity of our ordination, which would not be endured, it was agreed that the terms of Collationfhould he thefe [Take thou Legal .Authority to preach the Word o[Cod, and adminifter the Holy Sacraments in y Congrcge:ron of England, where thou jbalt be lawfully appointedthereunto,] That fo the word Legal might thew that it was only a general Licenfe from the King that we received, b'y what Minister foever he pleafed to deliver it : And if it were by a Bifhop, we declared that we fhould take it from him butas from the King's Miniftér. For the Paper which I gave in against Re-ordination, convinced Judge Hiles, and Dr. Wilkins, that the renunciation of former Ordination in England was by ho means to be exalted or doue. a. Our Form of Subfcription remained unaltered. 3. The Claufe of Appeals we left out. 4. e Fourth, i-sjtb, and Eevcrrh palled, leaving out the Claufe of Regiftriny N Thaisses. a. The
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