The Laymans Apology for Returning to Primitive Christianity
The Laymans Apology for Returning to Primitive Christianity
Thomas Podmore
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nothing from the King's Power and Right over us ; For tho* oiir " Office be from God and Chriji immediately, yet may we not cxer- ** cife that Power either of Order or Jurifdiftion, but as God hath ** appointed us, that is, not in his Majefty*s or any Chriftian King's '* Kingdoms, but by and under the Power of the King, given us " (o to do 59. " And this muft needs be the true Senfe of the Church of England i for otherwife (he muft be fuppofed to maintain both Sides of a Contradidion ( and conf...equently mull be hecefTarily Erroneous ), and to excommunicate Pcrfons by her fecond Canon for what (he is guilty of herfelf in her Ordinal. But this Diflindion of Ecclefiaftical Offices being Divine in the Inftitution, tho' Secular in the Conveyance ; of the Power of the Keys being from our Sa- viour, but the Exercife from the Civil Magiftrate ; has been con- iidcred above, and fhewn to be merely evafive, and not capable of removing the Charge of Eraftiani/m, efpecially when taken in Conjundlion and Reconciliation with fo many Afls of Parliament, which the Church oi England has made her own by her fec-ond Canon.
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