Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.
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- Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.
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- [Amsterdam] :: Printed [at the Cloppenburg Press?],
- anno Dom. 1640.
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- Church of England. -- Thirty-nine Articles -- Controversial literature.
- Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
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"Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00011.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.
Contents
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ENGLANDS
COMPLAINT
TO
IESVS CHRIST,
AGAINST THE BISHOPS
CANONS.
- The first is: Concerning the Regall power.
- The Second is, For the better keeping holy the day of his Majesties most happy Inauguration.
- The Third Canon is: For suppressing of the growth of Popery.
- The Fourth Canon is, Against Socinianisme.
- The Fifth Canon: Against Sectaries.
- The Sixt Canon: An Oath injoyn'd for the preventing of all Innovations in Doctrine and Government.
- The Seaventh Canon: A Declaration concerning some Rites and Ceremonies.
- Canon 8. Of Preaching for Conformity.
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Now passing by the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Canons, as of
moment, in the 13th. Of Excommunication and Absolution not to be pronounced but by a Priest. - Here now follow some Predictions of, and some Contradi∣dictions unto this late Synod, observed and collected out of the Relation of a Conference by William of Canterbury.
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That Synods may erre and foulely too, this of 1640. proves with
a
. If any Canons of it be sound, the Sixth hath poyson enough to infect them all. It's such a Cockatrice egge as was ne layd in England before, that eateth of a dyeth. I will here a little bowell this Oath, and shew you the mischief in it.