The Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England, Represented to the Dissenting Ministers: In Answer to the Tenth Chapter of Mr. Calamy's Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of His Life and Times ...

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T. Childe, 1703 - Dissenters
 

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Page 117 - WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Page 29 - That the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordering of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary to the word of God, and that it may lawfully so be used, and that he himself will use the form in the said Book prescribed in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and none other.
Page 38 - ... by him, in pursuance of such commission: and that they would not at any time endeavour any alteration of the government either in church or state.
Page 134 - be admitted to the holy communion, until fuch " time as he be confirmed, or be ready and defirous
Page 216 - The separation of the Church of England from the Church of Rome...
Page 34 - Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving of the Sacraments.
Page 4 - They must take the Oath of Canonical Obedience, and swear Subjection to their Ordinary, according to the Canons of the Church.
Page 3 - A declaration of their unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything prescribed and contained in the Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church of England, together with the Psalter, and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Page 32 - by the wit of man, more full and more significant, whereby they (the clergy) might testify their highest justification and commendation of every point and syllable, every rite and ceremony, every matter and thing contained in the whole book, and in every page and line of it.
Page 154 - ... them, and the defects of the present way of worship, that they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public, together with their private helps. Only in three cases they ought to absent themselves. When the minister was one that was utterly insufficient, as not being able to teach them the articles of the faith and essentials of true religion ; such as, alas ! they had known to their sorrow. When the minister preached any heresy, or doctrine which was...

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