Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

r I13 J follows. " You mutt (fay they very Ibid. p sò authoritavely to the Parliament) " place thofe ignorant and unable Mi- " nifters already placed, and in their " Rooms appoint fuck as both can and " will, by God's A%ftance, feed the " Flock." Not only the whole Body of the Clergy are to be deprived and ejeted, but the Conftitution it felf thrown down, and thevery Foundation of it raz'd. " OVERTHROW (fay they) Ibiaè " without Hope of Reftitution, the " Court of Faculties remove Homi- " lies, Articles, InjunEtions, and that cc prefcript Order of Service made out cc of the 111afs- Book." And that none might prefume to violate their In- juntons, they defired to have them enforced by wholefome Severities. "To ibid. p. 7.1 redrefs thofe, your Wifdoms have to " remove, as before, ignorant Min ifters, " to enjoin Deacons and Midwives cc not to meddle in Minifters Matters ; if they do, to fee them SHARP (c LY PUNISHED." One hardly knows which to complain of molt, the Want of Modefty, or of Chriftian charity, in this Propofal of infli Ling 'harp .`Pu- niJhments upon .`Deacons that officiated as Minifters, when the Body of the En- glifh Clergy thought Deacons one Order of Minifters in the Chriftian Church, I and

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