The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . they reprove a great part of our Ceremoni:s ^ is, forthat as we have them from the Church of Rome, /» that Church ha I ih:mfromtht]Q\vi. I J. Tht Ecclefiaftical Tolity, p^. 12. The fourth, for that fundry of them
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . they reprove a great part of our Ceremoni:s ^ is, forthat as we have them from the Church of Rome, /» that Church ha I ih:mfromtht]Q\vi. I J. Tht Ecclefiaftical Tolity, p^. 12. The fourth, for that fundry of them h^vebeen (they fay) abufcd unto Idolatry^ and are by that mean become ^ The fifth, for that vet retain them fiill, mtrvithjianding the example of certain Churches reformed before us, which have call them A declaration of the proceedings of the Church of England, for the eftablijhment of things as they are. .Uch was the ancient fimplicity and foftnefs of fpirit, which fome-h ^v ar 3 uFtimes prevailed in the World, that they whole words were c/rmonics *even as Oracles amongft men, feemcd evermore loth to oive hiveinthcfentence againll any thing publiquely received in the Church God, except it were wonderful apparently evil -, for thatthey did not fo much encline to that feverity, which deliaht-eth to reprove the leaft things it feeth amifs ; as to that Chliri-ty, which is unwilling to behold any thing, that duty biudethto reprove. The ftate of this prefent Age, wherein zeal hath drowned charity,and skill meeknefs, wil
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