An Historical View of the State of the Protestant Dissenters in England And of
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" It fhould be mentioned to the honour of this prelate, that fo far from evading an examination of his book, he begged the archbifhop to difpenfe with the order againft furihej: communications on the fubjeOn receiving the mefTage delivered by Mr. TiUot, the archbifhop and biiliops, in a committee, came to a declaration of their judgment on thefteps taken in this matter by the lower houfe. They delivered it as their deciiion, " That the lower houfe had no "... power, judicially, to cenfure any book: That they *' ought not to have entered upon the examination *' of a book written by a bifliop of the church, with- " out firfl acquainting the prefident and bifliops *' with their defign: That cenfuring the work of *' the Bifhop of Sarum in general terms, v/ithout " alleging the particular pafFages on which the cen- ^^ fure was grounded, was defamatory and fcandalous; *' That the Bifliop of Sarum, by his excellent *' Hiftory of the Reformation, approved by both " houfes of Parliament, and by other writings, '' had done great fervices to the Church of England, ^•' and bad juftly deferved the thanks of their houfe: '' And that though private perfons may expound the *' articles of the church, yet it could not be proper " for the convocation, at that time, to approve, *' much lefs to condemn, fuch private expofitions, *" By thefe decifions of the upper houfe the lower was reftrained from proceeding, in their corporate capa- city, to thofe extremities to which they fliewed a a ftrong inclination.
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